South entrance rotunda, Woolwich foot tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. Infrastructure. 1 related planning application.
South entrance rotunda, Woolwich foot tunnel
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spandrel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Address
- South entrance rotunda, Woolwich foot tunnel, Ferry Approach, London, SE18 6DL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 433 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49432, 0.06288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south entrance rotunda of the Woolwich foot tunnel is a structure built between 1910 and 1912, designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. It is constructed of red brick with a blue brick plinth and features a roof primarily made of lead. The rotunda is a single storey and has a canopied entrance adorned with decorative bargeboards and foliate capitals on cast-iron columns. Above the entrance, there are segmental arches over paired fifteen-pane sash windows, which are fitted with wrought-iron grilles and set in square recessed panels. A stone cornice runs beneath a panelled stone-coped parapet, and the building is topped with a conical roof that includes a circular lantern. Inside, there is a spiral staircase that provides access to the 1,655-foot-long tunnel beneath the Thames.
Local climate
South entrance rotunda, Woolwich foot tunnel 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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