Nelson Dock Patent Slip, Including Gates

NELSON DOCK PATENT SLIP, INCLUDING GATES, ROTHERHITHE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385845
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:
Nelson Dock Patent Slip, Including Gates
Statutory Address:
NELSON DOCK PATENT SLIP, INCLUDING GATES, ROTHERHITHE STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385845
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Nelson Dock Patent Slip, Including Gates
Statutory Address 1:
NELSON DOCK PATENT SLIP, INCLUDING GATES, ROTHERHITHE STREET

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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:
NELSON DOCK PATENT SLIP, INCLUDING GATES, 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:
TQ3658180241

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3680SE ROTHERHITHE STREET
636-1/21/662 (East side)
01/07/83 Nelson Dock Patent Slip, including
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
ROTHERHITHE STREET
Nelson Dock Engine House and Draw
Dock)

GV II

Patent slip. 1855. Originally brick lined with ashlar copings,
now faced in concrete.
At river end a pair of iron clad gates with hydraulic rams.
Served by adjacent engine house (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: between the 1790s and 1821 Nelson Docks
belonged to Randall and Brent together with 2 other yards
flanking the Greenland Dock entrance. They became pioneer
steamship builders (the "Diana" of 1817 and the "Rising Star"
ordered by Lord Cochrane for the Chilean Navy in 1821). From
1851 to 1866 Bible and Perry built composite hull clippers
here for the China Trade. An important remaining part of
Nelson's Dock.

Listing NGR: TQ3658180241

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
471264
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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