Warehouse K
WAREHOUSE K, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376226
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse K
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHOUSE K, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376226
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse K
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAREHOUSE K, ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
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:
- WAREHOUSE K, 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:
- TQ4062380822
Details
TQ 48 SW
251/4/10026
ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
Warehouse "K"
II
Tobacco warehouse. c. 1850-55. An original Victoria Dock tobacco warehouse, the first dock designed for rail servicing. Stock brick; slate roof. 3 storeys; 26-window range. Ground floor as basement to the south. Stepped brick eaves parapet. 3 symmetrically spaced 3-storey hatched ranks with hoists, one retaining original hipped slate roof to east end of range. Pilaster strips divide recessed panels containing segmental arched windows: iron-framed, of 3 lights with small panes. Bowed individual areas in front of ground-floor windows to south.
Internal construction of vast floor areas with iron inverted T-girder timber sandwiched beams on cast-iron columns, spaces between joists on ground floor only. Considerable decrease in ceiling height from first floor up. Stone staircase and iron-plated bond doors. Single balk main beam to first floor which at its east end has a tobacco drying room. The attic floor has a fine sequence of splayed Queen post trusses, the majority of single exceptional span but some are notch lapped. Iron vertical tension rods bolted to ties. Intricate system of dragon beams and supporting posts to east hipped end.
Listing NGR: TQ4062380822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470220
- 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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