A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES

A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242438
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES
Statutory Address:: A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242438
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES
Statutory Address 1:: A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES, WAPPING HIGH STREET E1

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:: A AND E WAREHOUSES, ST JOHN'S WHARVES, 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:: TQ3471080030

Details

1. 4431 TQ 3480 22/12

WAPPING HIGH STREET E1 'A' and 'B' Warehouses St John's Wharves

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2. C1860-70 warehouses, may have been a symmetrical group. 'A' warehouse is of 5 storeys stock brick, with granite dressings and reveals to ground floor flanking hatches of 3 bay symmetrical front. Channelled rustication to quoin pilasters. moulded brick cornice and parapet with central dormer hatch framed in brick with dentil cornice. The fifth floor bridge from the opposite side of road gives access to it. Flanking linked hatch ranks from first floor up, timber jambs only slightly recessed, segmental gauged arches. Centre bay has small paned iron frame segmental arched window to third and fourth floors. Hatches to floors below, that on second floor giving on to lower bridge across to north warehouse. 'E' warehouse is of 4 storeys and attic, stock brick with a 3 bay front, the coped parapet raised in gable over oculus. Segmental arched windows with Portland sills flanking hatch rank, the timber jambs only slightly recessed. River elevations have suffered some alteration, but are similar. Linked across Wapping High Street to St John's Wharves warehouses north block (qv)), by means of the now increasingly rare gantry gangways, this group of warehouses still preserve some of the cavernous, ravine-like quality which once characterised Wapping High St. They also have some architectural character, and preserve their original hoists.

Listing NGR: TQ3471080030

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Legacy System number:: 441785
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.