Description

TQ 3480
22/779

WAPPING PIER HEAD E1 (south side of Wapping High Street)
Nos 1 to 4 (consec)

29.12.50

GV
II
1811. Built, with Nos.5 to 10 (consec), as houses for employees of London Docks. Yellow stock brick with some patching. Stone cornice and brick parapet. Stone band above ground floor. Stone plinth with segmental arched basement windows three storeys and basements, eleven windows including three in end bow (one blank), three windows on southern return. Northern return four windows (one blank) and one window on rounded angle. All sashes with glazing bars. Ground floor windows round arched, recessed and set in wider brick arch. Gauged flat arches to recessed windows first and second floor. No. 1 has di-style Doric porch.

The iron railings and paved roadway of Wapping Pier Head form a group with Nos. 1 to 15 (consec) and No 4½, Town of Ramsgate Public House, Oliver's Wharf and this section of the wall and entrance to London Docks, and four bollards, Wapping Old Stairs, Wapping High Street.

Listing NGR: TQ3452080066

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082760

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