Quay Walls,copings and Butresses to Import Dock and Export Dock
QUAY WALLS,COPINGS AND BUTRESSES TO IMPORT DOCK AND EXPORT DOCK, WEST INDIA DOCKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065783
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Walls,copings and Butresses to Import Dock and Export Dock
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY WALLS,COPINGS AND BUTRESSES TO IMPORT DOCK AND EXPORT DOCK, WEST INDIA DOCKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065783
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Walls,copings and Butresses to Import Dock and Export Dock
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUAY WALLS,COPINGS AND BUTRESSES TO IMPORT DOCK AND EXPORT DOCK, WEST INDIA DOCKS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY WALLS,COPINGS AND BUTRESSES TO IMPORT DOCK AND EXPORT DOCK, WEST INDIA DOCKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37573 80490
Details
WEST INDIA DOCKS
Isle of Dogs
Quay walls, copings an
buttresses to Import
Dock and Export Dock.
I
Following the Act of 1799, the West India Docks were opened in 1802, the first
and greatest of the enclosed security commercial docks, a pioneering civil
engineering design by William Jessop with Ralph Walker, that created the modern
Port of London after 1000 and set the precedent for commercial dock design.
The Import Dock is the earliest, 1800-02, followed to south by the Export
Lock of 1803-06. Totalling 54 acres and 2,600 ft long with an original impounded
south of 23 ft, the quay wall are of sophisticated brickwork having a profile and counterfort buttresses, on a gravel bed. The ashlar granite copings
have largely been renewed or concealed by jetties. The locks to the Blackwall
Basin were enlarged later in the C19 but see West Ferry Road for the
Limehouse Entrance lock to the former City Canal subsequently in the 1860s
enlarged as the present South Dock. Expenditure on works from 1800 to 1806
amounted to the vast sum of ?l.1 million. These docks with Nos 1 and 2 warehouses (qv) are now the only surviving examples of the first intensive period of London dock construction: 1800-10.
Listing NGR: TQ3757380490
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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