ENDERBY HOUSE

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:: 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

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:: 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

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 200260
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.