Silo D
SILO D, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245030
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Silo D
- Statutory Address:
- SILO D, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245030
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Silo D
- Statutory Address 1:
- SILO D, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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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:
- SILO D, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Newham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 40954 80197
Details
TQ 48 SW
251/4/10034
ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
(South off)
Silo'D'
II
Grain silo. 1920, restored 1995. Reinforced concrete. Simple plan of set back, central head house, with square compartments housing silos to either side and rear linked at high level, and with a horizontal Chase- style elevator on top, and leg to one side. Windows, now blocked overlooking finger dock, with roundels on high level link. Interior not inspected. Bulk grain was lifted from ships and barges into the central cube of silos and the two side towers, both by traditional bucket conveyor and by suction elevator, and thence loaded on to other barges. This was the centre of grain importation into London, and replaced iron silos of 1898 which were damaged in the Silvertown munitions explosion of 1917. Included as a dramatic, unusually architectural and relatively early surviving example of a reinforced concrete grain silo. Silos have become celebrated as statements of pure modernism achieved almost accidentally as a sideline to industrial functionalism, and this is a particularly good example.
Sources Elizabeth Williamson and Nikolaus Pevsner, London Docklands, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1997, p.184
Rayner Banham, A Concrete Atlantis, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1986, pp.109- 79
Listing NGR: TQ4095480197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London Docklands, (1997), 184
Banham, R, A Concrete Atlantis, (1986), 109-179
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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