Stone Stairs is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Slipway.

Stone Stairs

WRENN ID
turning-clay-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Slipway
Address
Stone Stairs, the Highway E1
OS grid reference
TQ 358 807
Coordinates
51.50973, -0.04392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stone Stairs is a 19th-century slipway leading to the River Thames, located on the south side of The Highway.

Local climate

Stone Stairs sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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