Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3379 MILL STREET
636-1/5/523 (West side)
09/02/82 No.27
New Concordia Wharf, north-east
block with water tower and chimney
(Formerly Listed as:
MILL STREET
St Saviour's Dock; New Concordia
Wharf north-east warehouse block &
water tower)

GV II

Cornmill and warehouse block including chimney and water
tower, now residential and commercial use. 1882, reconstructed
1894-8 after fire, restored and converted 1981-3. Stock brick
with yellow brick dressings and stepped brick parapet with
coping.
PLAN: part of a complex of buildings around a courtyard on
east side of St Saviour's Dock.
EXTERIOR: main street elevation of 6 storeys, 8 bays.
Full-height hatch rank in 3rd bay from right, now installed
with balconies. Ground-floor left 3 bays have blank windows, a
recent timber shop front to their right. All windows have
segmental, gauged yellow brick arches. Some recessed
drainpipes.
Attached to S end of range by yard entrance is a brick chimney
stack on a moulded stone base, recently rebuilt at top.
Chimney is raised on a tall square brick pedestal with arched
panels and a moulded Portland stone cornice.
Tall brick water tower to north-west (linking with dockside
range) of 8 storeys. Top 'belvedere' has 3 arched recesses to
each face, now containing windows, with projecting metal
parapet above. Open at ground floor as walkway; windows now
altered, with balconies added to each floor.
Gabled south return and yard elevation of range have similar
window details to street elevation. Some of the structural
cruciform cast-iron columns have been exposed to yard. New
elevation to north where previously another warehouse was
attached.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of former St Saviour's Flour Mill; strong group value
with the other New Concordia Wharf buildings (qqv), and the
whole range of warehouses in Mill Street (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ3400479868

Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)