MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO

MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO, 23, GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SE10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289118
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO
Statutory Address:: MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO, 23, GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SE10

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289118
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO
Statutory Address 1:: MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO, 23, GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SE10

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:: MUMFORDS GRAIN SILO, 23, GREENWICH HIGH ROAD SE10

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 37515 76996

Details

TQ 377725/462 GREENWICH HIGHROAD, SE10 TQ 377636/462 (west side) No.23 - Mumford's Grain Silo II

Grain silo. 1897 by Aston Webb. Diapered brick with stone dressings. Roof, part gabled with slate, part flat, with coped parapets. Stone band at 4th storey level, 2 stone bands below modillioned stone cornice, plain cornice above attic storey. Stone quoins. North elevation has 5 unevenly spaced storeys. Lower 3 storeys together have to left and right, a recessed bay with cambered arch, that to left with 3 doorways, one above another, that to right with 3 glazing bar sashes with cambered arches, one above another. Above, 3 double recessed round windows. Above in the attic storey, 3 glazing bar sashes. Above again a triangular pedimented roof gable with stone dressings and a central round window. North-west corner of silo has extruded polygonal tower with narrow windows, stone cornice, and dome with finial. West elevation: 9 storeys, 4 irregular bays. Lower 3 storeys have windows with metal glazing bars and cambered arches in all 4 bays in each storey. Above, to right, 2 bays of glazing bar sashes with cambered arches, in 5 storeys. To left, below the stone band, 2 double recessed round windows. Above, in the attic storey, 4 glazing bar sashes with cambered arches. East elevation similarly treated again with irregularly spaced storeys. South elevation has no openings in attic storey, but instead the inscription: '1790: MUMFORD'S: GREENWICH: FLOUR: MILLS: 1897'. Roof has several metal, variable direction, cowled and crested ventilators. Interior: iron spiral staircase, iron supporting shafts, grain bins, and some surviving hoist machinery. Adjoining to south, brick, 4 storey flour mill range with water-tower.

Listing NGR: TQ3751277001

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Legacy System number:: 397897
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.