The Cardamon Building
THE CARDAMON BUILDING, SHAD THAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Cardamon Building
- Statutory Address:
- THE CARDAMON BUILDING, SHAD THAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Cardamon Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CARDAMON BUILDING, SHAD THAMES
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:
- THE CARDAMON BUILDING, 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 33794 80027
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3380 SHAD THAMES 636-1/2/692 (South side) 20/01/82 The Cardamon Building (Formerly Listed as: SHAD THAMES 'H' 'I' 'J' 'K' and 'VI' Warehouse range, Butler's Wharf)
GV II
Warehouse range. 1884-86 and 1891-92, being converted for retail and residential use at time of survey. Stock brick with white brick dressings and Portland stone coped parapets to Shad Thames front elevation of 19 bays and returns to Curlew Street (5 bays, one blind) and Lafone Street (3 bays). 5 and 6 storeys, 4 storeys to Curlew Street return. The 4 bay section to right on corner with Lafone Street has ground and mezzanine floors occupied by office/shop fronts framed by cast-iron pilasters with lotus leaf capitals and with cast-iron mullions to broad window frames; girder entablature returned to Lafone Street with similar pilaster details. The rest of the range has a pedimented door and 3 hatch ranks with bull-nosed reveals to front elevation, and pale brick segmental arches to windows. Similar windows to returns. A feature of the front elevation is the steel gangway bridges (now replaced in replica) at 2nd- and 5th-floor levels linking the building with the Butler's Wharf riverside range (qv) on the north side of the street. INTERIOR: in 4-bay section to right a brick vaulted basement carries the double-height ground floor with encased circular cast-iron columns supporting a timber floor. Similar cast-iron and timber construction to upper floors. Main internal construction: brick jack vaults supporting ground floor; cast-iron columns supporting similar vaults and concrete screed to 1st floor; upper floors with cast-iron cruciform columns supporting timber floors. This landward warehouse range has a crucial relationship with the Butler's Wharf riverside block, forming the longest group of surviving bridged warehouses in the Docklands.
Listing NGR: TQ3379480027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471327
- 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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