Dry Dock at Blackwall Engineering
DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING, BLACKWALL WAY E14
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242217
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Dry Dock at Blackwall Engineering
- Statutory Address:
- DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING, BLACKWALL WAY E14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242217
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Dry Dock at Blackwall Engineering
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING, BLACKWALL WAY E14
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:
- DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING, BLACKWALL WAY 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 38715 80619
Details
788/26/868A BLACKWALL WAY E14
01-APR-83 Dry Dock at Blackwall Engineering
(Formerly listed as:
BLACKWALL WAY
Dry Dock at Blackwall Engineering)
II
Dry dock. Late C18, in existence in 1803, enlarged and rebuilt to its present dimensions before 1850. Truncated to two-thirds of original length 1988 and north end reprofiled by Richard Rogers Partnership. Brick and stone construction with the usual stepped bottom.
PLAN: rectangular, with waisted east side at north end and curved north corners.
EXTERIOR: one step visible above water line, paved with millstone slabs on lower step, and with granite facing blocks to edges of both steps. Side walls of yellow stock brick laid in English bond. Terminal south walls of red stock brick and with millstone coping. Granite-faced steps on either side at south end, and opposite each other at point of waisting. Steel caisson gate at south end renewed in 1988. One of the earliest large dry docks remaining on the Thames. Used by the Greens in their Blackwall Yard, famous for Blackwall frigates and later adapted for repairing paddle wheel tugs.
Listing NGR: TQ3871580619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441610
- 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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