Former 'E', 'F' and 'G' warehouse block

Gun Place, 86 Wapping Lane, E1W 2RX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242452
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Former 'E', 'F' and 'G' warehouse block
Statutory Address:: Gun Place, 86 Wapping Lane, E1W 2RX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242452
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Former 'E', 'F' and 'G' warehouse block
Statutory Address 1:: Gun Place, 86 Wapping Lane, E1W 2RX

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:: Gun Place, 86 Wapping Lane, E1W 2RX

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:: TQ3496380147

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 March 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 3480 22/1

WAPPING LANE E1 No 86 Gun Place

(Formerly listed as WAPPING HIGH STREET E1 'E', 'F' and 'G' warehouse block, Gun Wharves)

GV II

C1910 warehouse block complementing the riverside Gun Wharves block on opposite side of road and thus forming one of the rare surviving 'canyons' in dockland. Similar but slightly later build. Seven storeys stock brick with compo stone architectural trim. Front to High Street bends to centre with road line. Eight bays with windows and hatch ranks set in full height panels rising from Engineering brick trimmed plinth and with stepped brick heads, creating pilaster strip effect. Flush plat bands to fifth and seventh floors. Moulded cornice and parapet. Two-light mullioned windows with lintels. Hatch ranks have white nosing brick trim to reveals. Short section of panelled parapet pierced by lunette rather as bellcot. Western hatch rank has lattice curved jib crane pivot mounted to top floor with detached, curved operating box. East section elevation similar with nine bays, two straight jib cranes.

See entry for No. 126 to 130 Gun Wharves Wapping High Street (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3500680134

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Legacy System number:: 441791
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.