Harbour Master's Office is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Office. 2 related planning applications.
Harbour Master's Office
- WRENN ID
- winding-corbel-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Harbour Master's Office, Ballast Quay Se10, SE10 9PD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 389 783
- Coordinates
- 51.48667, 0.00054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Harbour Master's Office is a substantial mid-19th century building with two storeys and a basement, featuring three windows. It has a moderately low pitched slated roof and two central chimneys along with one rear tall brick chimney, all with stone-coped plinths, a stone cornice, and a blocking course, supported by brick brackets. The building displays a heavy stone eaves cornice with moulded, closely set brackets and a stone frieze below that has the inscription "HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE" in incised sans-serif capitals. There is a stone band at the first floor level and a stone-coped basement plinth. The walls are made of multicoloured stock brick.
The sash windows, which have glazing bars, feature moulded stone architraves and bracketed cills. The outer windows on the ground floor are three-light, and the ground floor and first floor centre windows have console bracketed cornices. To the right, there is a set-back two-storey entrance extension with a blank first floor. Access is provided by seven steps leading to a four-panel door beneath a bracketed stone cornice hood. The property is enclosed by tall cast iron spearhead area railings with stout, domed posts topped with spike finials and swept square bases at intervals, along with similar wrought iron gates on both sides. There is also a set-back one-storey entrance extension on the left, featuring a door identical to that on the right.
The Harbour Master's Office is part of a group with all the listed buildings on Ballast Quay and No 18.
Local climate
Harbour Master's Office 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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