Description

THOMAS MOORE STREET El
1.
4431
London Docks
29.12.50
TQ 3480 22/771 GV Warehouse 'A' (Skin Floor
including vaults
The address shall be amended to read:-
PENNINGTON STREET El
London Docks
'A' Warehouse (Skin Floor)
including vaults extending
under Wapping Lane
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The Skin Floor, part of the fonner New Tobacco Warehouse is a unique, remarkable single
storey building of exceptional size, built between 1811 and 1813, architect
Daniel Alexander, surveyor to the London Dock Company. It is about 250 ft x 350 ft
long, the space within the lofty stock brick walls (effectively the dockyard wall) has
no intermediate walls at all and the roof is supported, at the widest possible span,
an cast iron cross section columns with branch like V-shaped raking struts, quite the
most notable feature of the design and a fascinating evolutionary stage in the earliest
use of cast iron construction in London warehouses. Rakes queen post trusses, combined
with king post bracing in 2 tiers with top clerestory, have a clear span of 54 ft and
the supporting columns are at 18 ft centres, the V-ahaped raking struts bearing the
intermediate trusses. The module of 18 ft is that of the fine brickwork vaults beneath
the building. The Skin Floor is one of the earliest surviving examples in southern
England of the use of cast iron in building. See report by Malcolm Tucker, GLIAS.
Industrial archaeological interest.

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THOMAS MORE STREET E1
1.
4431 LONDON DOCKS
Warehouse A
(Skin Floor) including vaults
TQ 3480 22/771 29.12.50
II GV
2.
Circa 1804. Attributed to Rennie. 1 storey. Trussed roof of 4 wide spans with
sloping queen posts and continuous lantern supported on cast iron posts and framework
of interesting design. Externally of stock brick, now with corrugated iron cladding
above. No windows in facade.

The listed buildings and walls etc of The London Docks form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3470080589

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Tobacco Dock at Wikipedia
• Tobacco Dock official website
• Wikidata Q1671266

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