Description

1.
4431
TQ 3480
22/12

WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
'A' and 'B' Warehouses
St John's Wharves

II
GV

2.
C1860-70 warehouses, may have been a symmetrical group. 'A' warehouse is of 5 storeys
stock brick, with granite dressings and reveals to ground floor flanking hatches of
3 bay symmetrical front. Channelled rustication to quoin pilasters. moulded brick
cornice and parapet with central dormer hatch framed in brick with dentil cornice.
The fifth floor bridge from the opposite side of road gives access to it. Flanking
linked hatch ranks from first floor up, timber jambs only slightly recessed,
segmental gauged arches. Centre bay has small paned iron frame segmental arched
window to third and fourth floors. Hatches to floors below, that on second floor giving
on to lower bridge across to north warehouse. 'E' warehouse is of 4 storeys and attic,
stock brick with a 3 bay front, the coped parapet raised in gable over oculus.
Segmental arched windows with Portland sills flanking hatch rank, the timber jambs
only slightly recessed. River elevations have suffered some alteration, but are
similar. Linked across Wapping High Street to St John's Wharves warehouses north
block (qv)), by means of the now increasingly rare gantry gangways, this group of
warehouses still preserve some of the cavernous, ravine-like quality which once
characterised Wapping High St. They also have some architectural character, and
preserve their original hoists.

Listing NGR: TQ3471080030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081843

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)