RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE

RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, PARK ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214381
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, PARK ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214381
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, PARK ROW

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RIVER WALL IN FRONT OF ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, PARK ROW

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 38552 78025

Details

TQ 3878 PARK ROW (off) (west side) 786-/15/10042 River wall in front of Royal Naval College

GV II

Two hundred metres of river wall fronting the Royal Naval College (formerly Greenwich Hospital, q.v.). 1830s, from the office ofJoseph Kay, architect to the hospital, and contemporary with his Trafalgar Tavern (q.v.) alongside. Limestone ashlar, a formal composition with two flights of steps at its centre, the stonework in between rusticated and slightly battered. The east end adjoining the Trafalgar Tavern projects towards the river for twenty metres; safety is ensured by the survival of the contemporary ironwork set between thick, square limestone piers. Each panel of ironwork comprises a diagonal cross set with a central boss decorated with a circular'rope'.

Listing NGR: TQ3857778039

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Legacy System number:: 399180
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.