Wapping Police Station
WAPPING POLICE STATION, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1242394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- Statutory Address:
- WAPPING POLICE STATION, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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- 2006-10-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/16217/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1242394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAPPING POLICE STATION, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAPPING POLICE STATION, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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 34832 80030
Details
WAPPING HIGH STREET E1 1. 4431 TQ 3480 22/11 GV Wapping Police Station II
2. 1907-10 police station, architect John Dixon Butler. Road side block of 2 storeys and attic, linked across central yard to riverside 3 storey block. Restrained design not surprisingly in a Norman Shaw derived style. Five bay street front of finely pointed light grey-brown brick with Portland ashlar dressings. Flush spaced quoins and flush plat bands at ground floor lintel level and as first floor sill band. Similar frieze and shaped stone-brackets to deep flat eaves. Flush quoining and stone coping to raised gable ends capped by banded stacks. Short pentice pitch to slate roof back from eaves changing to near vertical mansard attic with casement dormers: moulded cornices and alternating, stepped in, semi-circular and triangular pediments. Two light glazing bar sash windows to first floor. Mullion-transom casements to ground floor. Carriage archway in second bay from left with slightly eared architrave surround, stepped keystone to lintel, lower part of jambs tile faced. Area railings of simple Arts and Crafts design. Flush squared stone miillioned transomed windows to west passage elevation, The river front has a symmetrical 3 bay 4 storey elevation. Spaced flush stone quoins up into second floor terminating in short sections of cornice moulding acting as corbel stops for an applied moulded stone gable peaking in the centre of the parapet which has swept stone copings over the flanking attic bays. The outer bays under the gable have tiered oriel-bay windows with stone dressings, on 3 storeys to left but to right stopping short above ground floor hatch with glazing and small paned side lights. Narrow stone linteled windows to centre on ground and first floors with 2 light stone mullioned casement on second floor, the lintel extended out as plat band. Two light narrow sashes to attic. See also Coldharbour E2 for the father's (John Butler) Blackwall River Police Station. J D Butler succeeded his father as Metropolitan Police architect in 1895.
Listing NGR: TQ3483280030
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 441787
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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