Enderby House
ENDERBY HOUSE, TELEGRAPH AVENUE, SE10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079026
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Enderby House
- Statutory Address:
- ENDERBY HOUSE, TELEGRAPH AVENUE, SE10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079026
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Enderby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENDERBY HOUSE, TELEGRAPH AVENUE, SE10
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:
- ENDERBY HOUSE, TELEGRAPH AVENUE, SE10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 39141 78761
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/11/2016
TQ 3978,
16/778
TELEGRAPH AVENUE SE 10,
Enderby House
(Formerly listed as: CHRISTCHURCH WAY SE10 Enderby House)
II
Early-mid C19 building of 2 storeys 2 windows and with wide projecting bay placed
diagonally across left corner, Modern rendering with incised lines. Stone cornice
and blocking course. Sash windows, some with vertical bars. Nondescript external
appearance but contains a handsome octagonal first floor room (giving onto the
diagonal bay, from whence the ship owner saw his vessels approach). At angles
narrow columns, with leafy capitals, support enriched entablature. Above this
a domed roof light with cast iron tracery. Oval landing outside has doors curved
to wall shape.
Enderby House belonged to the firm of Samuel Enderby, the largest whalers and
sealers in Britain, and pioneers of Antarctic exploration. Hermann Melville
describes their flagship and crew in "Moby Dick". The decline of British whaling led to the Enderbys ceasing to have an interest in Enderby’s Wharf in 1854. It was then taken on by Glass, Elliott and Company, a contractor for the first transatlantic telegraph cable (lost while being laid in 1857) then the second in 1858 which operated for a few weeks. The business was reconstituted in 1864 as the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, who manufactured cable at Enderby’s Wharf to an improved design for another attempt in 1865, and a fourth in 1866, both times with the Great Eastern as the cable-laying ship, and by the end of 1866 had achieved the first successfully working transatlantic telecommunications cable connection.
The building is listed partly for its important associations with the history of industry and technology, especially the laying of the first transatlantic cable.
Listing NGR: TQ3914178761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200260
- 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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