Royal Arsenal Middlegate House is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. House.
Royal Arsenal Middlegate House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Royal Arsenal Middlegate House, Plumstead Road Se18
- OS grid reference
- TQ 443 789
- Coordinates
- 51.49141, 0.07717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middlegate House, also known as the Master Store Keeper's House, is a house located on Plumstead Road in Woolwich, built in 1809. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stone dressings and features a darker brick second storey. The roof is not visible. The house has a double-depth plan with a central stair and is designed in the late Georgian style. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and has a three-window range.
The symmetrical front includes a ground-floor string, cornice, and blocking course. There are five steps leading up to a Greek Doric porch, which has been enclosed with wood panels and glazing, and features late 19th-century double doors. The inner doorway is adorned with a cornice and a patterned segmental-arched fanlight above a six-panel half-glazed door, with reeded jambs and sidelights. The ground-floor French windows have gauged brick flat arches and are flanked by reeded pilasters, while the upper storey has 6/6-pane sash windows. The sides and rear of the house are plain with a two-window design and include a rear stair turret. An office, built around 1938, is attached to the rear.
Inside, the house features a central entrance stair hall with an open well stair that has a curtail and wreathed rail, cast-iron stick balusters and newels, reeded jambs, and shuttered ground-floor windows. There is also a cast-iron mid-19th-century basement range and late Georgian joinery. Historically, it was built as the Master Store Keeper's House, and it is possible that the second storey was added later.
Local climate
Royal Arsenal Middlegate House 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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