Wine Cellars at Premises of Messers Asher Storey

WINE CELLARS AT PREMISES OF MESSERS ASHER STOREY, 8-10, TOWER HILL EC3

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1260113
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Wine Cellars at Premises of Messers Asher Storey
Statutory Address:
WINE CELLARS AT PREMISES OF MESSERS ASHER STOREY, 8-10, TOWER HILL EC3
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1260113
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Wine Cellars at Premises of Messers Asher Storey
Statutory Address 1:
WINE CELLARS AT PREMISES OF MESSERS ASHER STOREY, 8-10, TOWER HILL EC3

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WINE CELLARS AT PREMISES OF MESSERS ASHER STOREY, 8-10, TOWER HILL EC3

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 33439 80669

Details

TOWER HILL EC3 1. 4431 (West Side) Wine Cellars at Nos 8 to l0 (consec) (Premises of Messrs Asher Storey) TQ 3380 21/717 II 2. Mid C19 Cellars. Half in City of London. Situated below raised public terrace. Outer doorway with rusticated stone quoins set in partly rebuilt wall. C19 crane alongside. Wine cellars on 3 levels, 20 ins thick walls. Earlier cellars on this site said to have had connections with All Hallows Church, the Tiger Tavern and the Tower of London. Iron spiral staircase and plain stone stair. Cylindrical iron pillars support brick vaulted roof set on closely spaced beams. Vats of 1910-12 of unusual Swiss design lined with glass tiles set in concrete. These cellars are the last survivor of the formerly extensive wine trade of this area.

Listing NGR: TQ3344380652

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
206284
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.

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