The Watermans Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. A C19 Public house. 17 related planning applications.

The Watermans Arms

WRENN ID
twelfth-column-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The Watermans Arms, Glenaffric Avenue E14, E14 3BW
OS grid reference
TQ 385 785
Coordinates
51.48861, -0.00587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Waterman's Arms is a mid-19th century public house located on Glenaffric Avenue. The exterior is currently rendered and painted red, with a tiled ground floor and an unseen roof. A blocking course displays the name "Waterman's Arms" in large letters, and there is a painted signboard at the corner. The facade facing Glenaffric Avenue features three storeys and three windows. The first-floor windows are French casements with labels, and the central window has a triangular pediment. Each window has a cast iron balcony. Above this, there is a band with sash windows, one of which is blank, and a one-storey portion on the western side. The facade on Saunders Ness Road is similar but does not have a blank window on the second floor and features a continuous cast iron balcony on scrolled brackets for the first-floor windows.

The Waterman's Arms is part of a group that includes Christ Church and Christ Church Vicarage on Manchester Road, as well as the Newcastle Craw Dock on Saunders Ness Road.

Local climate

The Watermans Arms 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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