River Wall to former Naval Victualling Yard, Deptford

The walls are c6m high, curved in both plan and section, built in purple-brown stock brick laid in English bond, with granite copings and a stone plinth. Just under mid-height are stone ashlar bands, possibly Dundee or Craigleith stone as specified in Rennie’s work on the Dockyard walls. Some brick courses beneath the coping appear remade in yellower brick. At the angles of the landing recess to the Queen’s Steps are carefully mitred stone quoins; those on the north side incised with tide-measuring heights in Roman numerals, IV being the lowest visible, rising up to XX. There are vertical recesses in the brickwork for timber fenders at intervals of about 6m, and at the base of each, set into the plinth, is a cast-iron pocket, though some of these towards the south end have been removed. Below the plinth and the foreshore gravel there appear to be courses of finely pointed yellow-stock bricks. At the south-east end is a quadrant curve where the wall returns back to its original line, abutting the dockyard wall some 12m further along. Another curve at the north-west end marks the victualling yard's northern boundary. Above the copings there are C20 flood-prevention additions in concrete and engineering brick (which are not of special interest).