Front elevations of terraced houses at 1-4 Pier Head, Wapping, looking south. Fine Georgian houses, designed by Daniel Asher Alexander, they were built for the officials of the London Docks Company in 1811-13. Built of stock brick with some patching, they have a stone cornice and brick parapet. Three storeys high, they have basements with a stone band above the ground floor, and stone plinths with segmental arched basement windows. The ground-floor windows are round arched, recessed and set in wider brick arch, and there are gauged flat arches to recessed windows on the first and second floors. The entrance to number 1, furthest from the camera, has a porch supported by two Doric columns. The area on the left with mature trees is the remains of the filled in lock entrance to Wapping basin. On the right, on the outside of St. Helen's Wharf, are advertisements for The Great Wapping Wine with a builders skip outside. Parked in the street are a Ford Cortina Mk II (registration BTW 319G) and an Opel Rekord D. Numbers 1-4 were Grade II listed in 1950, listing number 1260059. The iron railings (including lamp brackets) to 1-10 Pier Head were Grade II listed in 1973, listing number 1065811. At the entrance Pier Head, the granite bollard (one of four) was Grade II listed in 1973, listing number 1065805.