Description

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TQ3379
636-1/5/686

SOUTHWARK
SHAD THAMES (South side)
No.27 (Wheat Wharf)

(Formerly listed as No.29, previously listed as SHAD THAMES 'W11' Warehouse, Butler's Wharf)

20/01/82

GV
II
Former grain warehouse. Early to mid C19. White Suffolk brick front refacing to stock brick walls, pitched slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys (5 to central bay), near symmetrical front of 12 bays (an extra bay to right section); stepped brick eaves cornice raised in low broad gable over centre 5 bays. Column of hatch ranks in outer bays of this central section. Ground-floor openings altered, some with concrete lintels. Tripartite windows with timber frames and segmental header brick arches. 6 bay gable end to Maguire Street. Rear elevation has 2 flat-roofed dormer hatches with simple timber beam hoists; small 2-light windows with cambered brick arches and Portland stone sills.
INTERIOR: believed to be entirely timber-framed with 5 aisles of square posts with bracket spreader caps supporting floors and a queen post roof. Open timber staircases. An early warehouse survival.

Listing NGR: TQ3387579979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665654

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