DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING

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
List Entry Name:: DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING
Statutory Address:: DRY DOCK AT BLACKWALL ENGINEERING, BLACKWALL WAY E14

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 441610
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.