OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE

OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE, WHALEBONE LANE SOUTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064421
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE, WHALEBONE LANE SOUTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064421
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE, WHALEBONE LANE SOUTH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OBELISK ON RAILWAY EMBANKMENT APPROXIMATELY 280 METRES EAST OF WHALEBONE BRIDGE, WHALEBONE LANE SOUTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Barking and Dagenham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ4897487830

Details

TQ 48 NE; 3/8

WHALEBONE LANE SOUTH, Chadwell Heath, Obelisk on railway embankment approximately 280 m east of Whalebone Bridge

14.09.79

II

Circa 1861. Coal Tax post marking extent of Metropolitan Police District, 6ft high polished red granite tapering obelisk on stone base with moulded capping. Inscribed face towards railway line.

Previously listed on 14 September 1979 in the London Borough of Havering only under London Road, Romford.

The duplicate record (List entry number 1358533) was removed from the List on 06 November 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1064421) falls within the district of Barking and Dagenham.

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Legacy System number:: 198260
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.