8, BALLAST QUAY SE10
8, BALLAST QUAY SE10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217939
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, BALLAST QUAY SE10
- Statutory Address:
- 8, BALLAST QUAY SE10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217939
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, BALLAST QUAY SE10
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, BALLAST QUAY 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:
- 8, BALLAST QUAY 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 38938 78284
Details
786/15/151 BALLAST QUAY SE10 08-JUN-73 8
II
Also Known As: 5, UNION WHARF SE10 Early-C19 terraced house with minor later alterations. EXTERIOR: Narrow house is of a single window bay and now of 4 storeys with parapet. To left, a narrow, 6-panelled door (late-C20 replacement) with cornice head and plain fanlight, in stucco-lined reveal under round, gauged brick arch. To right, a 6/6 wooden sash window (late-C20 replacement) under finely gauged brick flat arches at ground, first and second floor. A fourth floor was created in 1993 with the insertion of an additional window. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The houses in Ballast Quay constitute the earliest wave of development in this area in the first half of the C19 and are shown on Wyld's map of 1827. Further development occurred at adjoining streets the 1840s and 1850s under the direction of William Coles Child, head of a prominent coal-importation business. Ballast Quay, and nearby streets such as Pelton Street, are also notable for the rare survival of 1860s granite setts street-paving. This was laid by Coles Child to support the delivery of coal from the Greenwich waterfront. Ballast Quay was originally called Union Quay but was renamed because ships with discharged cargoes were laden with local gravel from this point.
No 8 Ballast Quay is a good example of the early development of the Docklands area that essentially retains its early-C19 character, has considerable group value with the other listed houses on Ballast Quay, and that adjoins an important survival of an historic street surface.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200200
- 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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