St John's Wharves Warehouses North Block (Oddbin's Limited)
ST JOHN'S WHARVES WAREHOUSES NORTH BLOCK (ODDBIN'S LIMITED), WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260063
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St John's Wharves Warehouses North Block (Oddbin's Limited)
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOHN'S WHARVES WAREHOUSES NORTH BLOCK (ODDBIN'S LIMITED), WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260063
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St John's Wharves Warehouses North Block (Oddbin's Limited)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOHN'S WHARVES WAREHOUSES NORTH BLOCK (ODDBIN'S LIMITED), WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
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.
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:
- ST JOHN'S WHARVES WAREHOUSES NORTH BLOCK (ODDBIN'S LIMITED), 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 34714 80059
Details
WAPPING HIGH STREET E1 1. 4431 St John's Wharves ware- houses north block (Oddbin's Ltd) TQ 3480 22/13 II GV
2. Dated 1873 (date stone laid by John Rober Hall, Charles Duncan? architect). A large warehouse block on corner site with Dundee Street. Six storeys stock brick with white Suffolk brick segmental window arches and banding at first and third floor impost levels. Corner rounded off. Dundee Street elevation, which bends with road line, retains substantial length of original deeply moulded brick cornice, cut back towards corner and facing High Street; parapet with stone coping. Eight bays to High Street and nine to Dundee Street. Segmental arched windows with small pane iron framed glazing, stone sills. One pair of full height ranks to High Street and 2 pairs to Dundee Street with white brick bull nosed reveals, small pane glazing to tongue and groove hatch doors. Cast iron panelled lintels as sole plates to hatch ranks and over ground floor windows below them. Office doors to both elevations with rusticated- verniculated surrounds and voussoirs, keystone to Dundee Street doorway. Lattice plate bridges at second and fifth floor levels across road to St John's Wharves 'A' and 'E' ware- houses. Interior has cast iron columns with flagged caps timber first floor but concrete beam upper floors. Linked to 'A' and 'E' Warehouses St Johs Wharves, Wapping High Street E1 (qv). Also has architectural interest, with its rounded corners, arched windows, and white brick bands. A particularly good warehouse of its period. It would also appear to make extremely early use of concrete beams.
Listing NGR: TQ3471480059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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