The station was granted grade II* heritage status by Historic England in 2017 during a campaign for greater representation of post-modern architecture on the register.

[3] Margaret Thatcher wanted the state to fund utilities, thus assigning responsibility for underground structures to the government and overground buildings to the LDDC.

[1][2] John Outram was tasked with building the Isle of Dogs station, with Richard Roberts and Nicholas Grimshaw responsible for the remaining two in Canning Town and North Woolwich respectively.

[2] The designation was the first in a push for greater representation of post–modern buildings on the National Heritage List for England,[4] due to the destruction of many such structures before they could be protected.

[6] The station is considered to be one of Outram's best-known works[4] and was one of his seven surviving buildings in Britain upon its listing;[5] another in Swanley was demolished prior to an assessment.