Air Shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
AIR SHAFT TO THE ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL, ROTHERHITHE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385839
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Air Shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
- Statutory Address:
- AIR SHAFT TO THE ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL, ROTHERHITHE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385839
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Air Shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
- Statutory Address 1:
- AIR SHAFT TO THE ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL, ROTHERHITHE STREET
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:
- AIR SHAFT TO THE ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL, ROTHERHITHE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35520 80171
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3580 ROTHERHITHE STREET 636-1/3/657 (North West side) 01/07/83 Air shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
GV II
Air shaft 'drum' to Rotherhithe Tunnel. 1904-08. By Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, engineer. For the LCC. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, no roof. Circular single-storey building containing staircase down to tunnel with 4 ventilation fans at low level. Projecting doorway bay to south with stone quoins and 2 openings with stone surrounds. Window bays around drum articulated by brick pilaster strips rising from granite plinth to stone corbel-bracketed cornice. Coupled narrow window openings, in quoined stone surrounds, have decorative iron grilles with the LCC monogram. The staircase is of iron with wrought balustrade and cast lamp standards. HISTORICAL NOTE: the tunnel was begun in 1904 and opened by the Prince of Wales in 1908. The shaft complements its twin in the King Edward VII Memorial Park, Shadwell (see London Borough of Tower Hamlets).
Listing NGR: TQ3552080171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471251
- 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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