RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET

RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241666
Date first listed:: 09-May-1980
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241666
Date first listed:: 09-May-1980
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14

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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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Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT TO NORTH OF REGENTS CANAL DOCK BETWEEN AND INCLUDING BRANCH ROAD BRIDGE AND LIMEHOUSE CUT UP TO THREE COLT STREET, COMMERCIAL ROAD E14

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 36468 81049

Details

The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2018.

COMMERCIAL ROAD E14 1. 4431 Railway Viaduct to north TQ 3681 17/10 of Regents Canal Dock TQ 3680 24/2 between and including Branch Road Bridge and Limehouse Cut up to Three Colt Street II

2. 1839. Engineers George Stephenson and G P Bidder. Built as part of the London and Blackwall Railway, opened in 1840. An early stock brick arcaded viaduct with console corbelled string below parapet with articulating dies. The Branch Road Bridge of 2 elliptical keystoned arches. Fine 3 arched bridge over the Grand Union Canal, the "centre piece" of the Regents Dock sequence of the viaduct, similar but single arch bridge over the Limehouse Cut. All 3 bridges have heavy ashlar quoining to abutments, surmounted by pedimental blocking course. Heavy keystones to finely gauged brickwork of arches, large stone cornice on corbel brackets below parapet. The Grand Union Canal Bridge has a large arcaded cast iron railing to the parapet. Listed for railway engineering interest. One of the earliest railways to serve the docks, before the great railway expansion of the 1840s. The railway was to revolutionise docking methods and buildings in the 1850s. Built by the famous railway engineer George Stephenson, this viaduct, with its fine arches, also has considerable architectural merit.

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1242220) was removed from the List on 13 December 2018.

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Legacy System number:: 206441
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.