Royal Arsenal East Riverside Guard Room is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Guardhouse. 1 related planning application.

Royal Arsenal East Riverside Guard Room

WRENN ID
long-hearth-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Greenwich
Constituency
Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1973
Type
Guardhouse
Address
Royal Arsenal East Riverside Guard Room, Plumstead Road Se18, SE18 6ST
OS grid reference
TQ 438 793
Coordinates
51.49507, 0.07073
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Arsenal East Riverside Guard Room is a guardhouse built in 1814, possibly designed by James or Lewis Wyatt. It is constructed from yellow and red stock brick, featuring a limestone ashlar cornice and parapet, with a 20th-century flat roof. The building has an octagonal single-room plan and is a single storey with an 8-bay range. It includes a plinth, cornice, and blocking course, with the sides displaying rubbed brick segmental-arched recesses. The south entrance bay has a mid-20th-century doorway, while the other sides have segmental arches leading to mostly blocked 6/6-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this guard room was one of a pair that flanked a flight of steps leading up from the river, which served as the original main entrance to the Arsenal. It once featured an 8-sided hipped roof and a central stack.

Local climate

Royal Arsenal East Riverside Guard Room 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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