A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending Under Wapping Lane
A WAREHOUSE (SKIN FLOOR) INCLUDING VAULTS EXTENDING UNDER WAPPING LANE, PENNINGTON STREET E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065827
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending Under Wapping Lane
- Statutory Address:
- A WAREHOUSE (SKIN FLOOR) INCLUDING VAULTS EXTENDING UNDER WAPPING LANE, PENNINGTON STREET E1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1065827
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending Under Wapping Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- A WAREHOUSE (SKIN FLOOR) INCLUDING VAULTS EXTENDING UNDER WAPPING LANE, PENNINGTON STREET E1
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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:
- A WAREHOUSE (SKIN FLOOR) INCLUDING VAULTS EXTENDING UNDER WAPPING LANE, PENNINGTON STREET E1
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 34700 80589
Details
THOMAS MOORE STREET El 1. 4431 London Docks 29.12.50 TQ 3480 22/771 GV Warehouse 'A' (Skin Floor including vaults The address shall be amended to read:- PENNINGTON STREET El London Docks 'A' Warehouse (Skin Floor) including vaults extending under Wapping Lane Upgrade to I and amend description to read as follows:- The Skin Floor, part of the fonner New Tobacco Warehouse is a unique, remarkable single storey building of exceptional size, built between 1811 and 1813, architect Daniel Alexander, surveyor to the London Dock Company. It is about 250 ft x 350 ft long, the space within the lofty stock brick walls (effectively the dockyard wall) has no intermediate walls at all and the roof is supported, at the widest possible span, an cast iron cross section columns with branch like V-shaped raking struts, quite the most notable feature of the design and a fascinating evolutionary stage in the earliest use of cast iron construction in London warehouses. Rakes queen post trusses, combined with king post bracing in 2 tiers with top clerestory, have a clear span of 54 ft and the supporting columns are at 18 ft centres, the V-ahaped raking struts bearing the intermediate trusses. The module of 18 ft is that of the fine brickwork vaults beneath the building. The Skin Floor is one of the earliest surviving examples in southern England of the use of cast iron in building. See report by Malcolm Tucker, GLIAS. Industrial archaeological interest.
------------------------------------ THOMAS MORE STREET E1 1. 4431 LONDON DOCKS Warehouse A (Skin Floor) including vaults TQ 3480 22/771 29.12.50 II GV 2. Circa 1804. Attributed to Rennie. 1 storey. Trussed roof of 4 wide spans with sloping queen posts and continuous lantern supported on cast iron posts and framework of interesting design. Externally of stock brick, now with corrugated iron cladding above. No windows in facade.
The listed buildings and walls etc of The London Docks form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3470080589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206276
- 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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