CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH

CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH, ROTHERHITHE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385840
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH, ROTHERHITHE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385840
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH, ROTHERHITHE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Statutory Address:: CANADA WHARF AND COLUMBIA WHARF, INCLUDING FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER TO SOUTH, ROTHERHITHE STREET

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 36573 80317

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3680SE ROTHERHITHE STREET 636-1/21/658 (East side) 01/07/83 Canada Wharf and Columbia Wharf, including former engine house and boiler to S (Formerly Listed as: ROTHERHITHE STREET Canada Wharf and Columbia Wharf)

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Complex of granary warehouses. 1864 and 1870-71. By James Edmeston. Southern block (now called Columbia Wharf), with engine house and boiler to south, 1864. To north, Canada Wharf, 1870-71. Canada Wharf being converted into flats with totally rebuilt interior at time of survey. MATERIALS: yellow stock brick with polychrome dressings, part of Columbia Wharf now rendered, coped parapets; slate roof to engine house and part of Canada Wharf, new roof extension to Columbia Wharf. EXTERIOR: Columbia Wharf: 4 storeys, 12 bays to street articulated by giant pilasters merging into parapet. Openings to altered, rendered ground-floor segmental-headed, those to 1st floor with segmental pointed heads, those to 2nd floor flat-headed, with gauged red brick arches. 3rd floor has lozenge-shaped windows with polychrome dressings. Similar details to right return of 9 bays, and river front of 5 storeys, 18 bays with hatch ranks now adapted as doors/canted bays. To south-east is former engine house and boiler room of 2 storeys: coupled windows with pointed and segmental pointed arches to river; north return built out with a 2 bay porch with a pair of ground-floor openings with pointed arches, stone keys and imposts. Hipped slate roof. Canada Wharf: 5-storey river block slightly Moorish in style, articulated by giant buttresses running almost full height of building and linked by heavy, red brick string courses. Segmental, pointed and flat-headed windows distinguish different floor levels, lozenge-shaped openings with polychrome dressings to upper floors of side elevations. Plainer 4-storey buildings running inland with dormer ranges in slate roof and openings with segmental, gauged-brick arches. Altered street elevation with hatch rank to upper floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. The entire group was formerly known as Canada Wharf. Complex

included gabled range of presumed erecting shops in front of Columbia Wharf to street, now demolished except for facades. Canada Wharf noted as being the first building in the country to have silos resting on an iron flooring with ventilation shafts and a vacant space beneath (these no longer exist). Columbia Wharf was divided into 4 compartments, each containing 56 perforated iron boxes fitted to ventilation shafts.

Listing NGR: TQ3657380317

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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.