Butlers Wharf Building Butlers Wharf West
BUTLERS WHARF BUILDING, 36, SHAD THAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385896
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Butlers Wharf Building Butlers Wharf West
- Statutory Address:
- BUTLERS WHARF BUILDING, 36, SHAD THAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385896
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Butlers Wharf Building Butlers Wharf West
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTLERS WHARF BUILDING, 36, SHAD THAMES
- Statutory Address 2:
- BUTLERS WHARF WEST, 38-42, SHAD THAMES
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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.
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:
- BUTLERS WHARF BUILDING, 36, SHAD THAMES
- Statutory Address:
- BUTLERS WHARF WEST, 38-42, SHAD THAMES
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 33783 80063
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3380 SHAD THAMES 636-1/2/687 (North side) 20/01/82 Nos.36-42 (Even) Butler's Wharf Building (No.36) and Butler's Wharf West (Nos.38-42) (Formerly Listed as: SHAD THAMES (North side) A1, A2, B1, B2, C, D1, D2, E1 and E2 Warehouse Range, Butler's Wharf)
GV II
Massive range of warehouses, now in residential and some office use. 1871-73, probably an enlargement of an existing block, partly rebuilt after fire damage, restored and rebuilt internally 1980s. By Tolley and Dale, architects. Stock brick with white brick dressings and stucco detailing. EXTERIOR: 6 and 7 storeys with recent attic extensions. Symmetrical river front elevation designed as a unified composition has slightly advanced centre piece and end pavilions of 7 storeys with rusticated quoins, the pedimented centre piece of 4 bays, the end pavilions of 6 bays with attic extensions behind giant stucco bracketed cornice, parapet and block pediment; 12-bay link blocks of 6 storeys with attic extension behind parapet. Cast-iron Doric columns to ground floor (possibly originally open, like a loggia), alternating in threes with brick piers, except to end pavilions where they are in pairs, all supporting a substantial iron girder "entablature" carrying the upper floors. Piercing the central pavilion is a 2-storey height waggon-way portico with identical detailing to both river and street elevations: giant cast-iron Doric columns flanked by pairs of arcaded windows with dividing column above panelled risers, and contained by giant pilasters. White brick segmental arches to windows and 14 hatch ranks (now adapted as balconies) with bull-nosed reveals. Street elevation, which is cranked in with the curve of the road alignment has similar details to windows and 13 hatch ranks with swivel hoists. Ground-floor openings to street also have segmental arches. Replica steel gangway bridges at 2nd- and 5th-floor levels (some with lattice bracing and rosette studs) link the building with the warehouse range on the south side of the street, the Cardamom Building (qv). INTERIOR, which showed unusual variety in methods of
construction and exemplified the transition from wood to iron in warehouse construction, completely rebuilt except for parts of Butler's Wharf West (former E block). When completed, the building was the largest wharf on the Thames. It remains the largest surviving range of a dockland 'canyon' in its bridged relationship with the warehouses on the south side of the road.
Listing NGR: TQ3378380063
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471315
- 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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