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Latitude: 51.5088 / 51°30'31"N
Longitude: 0.0249 / 0°1'29"E
OS Eastings: 540623
OS Northings: 180822
OS Grid: TQ406808
Mapcode National: GBR LT.QYZ
Mapcode Global: VHHNJ.DB1N
Plus Code: 9F32G25F+GX
Entry Name: Warehouse K
Listing Date: 27 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376226
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470220
ID on this website: 101376226
Location: Docklands, Newham, London, E16
County: London
District: Newham
Electoral Ward/Division: Canning Town South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newham
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Victoria Docks St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Warehouse
TQ 48 SW
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ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
Warehouse "K"
II
Tobacco warehouse. c. 1850-55. An original Victoria Dock tobacco warehouse, the first dock designed for rail servicing. Stock brick; slate roof. 3 storeys; 26-window range. Ground floor as basement to the south. Stepped brick eaves parapet. 3 symmetrically spaced 3-storey hatched ranks with hoists, one retaining original hipped slate roof to east end of range. Pilaster strips divide recessed panels containing segmental arched windows: iron-framed, of 3 lights with small panes. Bowed individual areas in front of ground-floor windows to south.
Internal construction of vast floor areas with iron inverted T-girder timber sandwiched beams on cast-iron columns, spaces between joists on ground floor only. Considerable decrease in ceiling height from first floor up. Stone staircase and iron-plated bond doors. Single balk main beam to first floor which at its east end has a tobacco drying room. The attic floor has a fine sequence of splayed Queen post trusses, the majority of single exceptional span but some are notch lapped. Iron vertical tension rods bolted to ties. Intricate system of dragon beams and supporting posts to east hipped end.
Listing NGR: TQ4062380822
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