99, Rotherhithe Street

A granary warehouse, now used as studios and workshops, was built around 1843 and refurbished in the 1970s. The street facade is of stock brick, while the side elevation is mainly brown brick with red brick dressings, Portland stone coping, and other details. It has a hipped slate roof hidden behind a parapet.

The street front has five storeys and three bays, with a full-height loading bay to the left, sheltered by a flat cast iron cornice held up by large, pierced console brackets. The windows are small and square with cambered red brick arches and Portland stone sills, although the later 20th-century wooden two-light casements have replaced the originals. A plain parapet has ends that project slightly on Portland stone corbels.

The river front is similar, with a hoist on the right and the removal of the console brackets from the hood. The west return elevation has five bays and similar window placement. All elevations include circular cast iron ties.

Inside, the construction is of Baltic timber, supported on stone corbels, except for the street front, which uses cast iron. The timber is supported on cruciform cast-iron columns; most have jowled heads, with simpler cruciform columns on the ground floor, and two shorter cruciform columns are also found on the ground floor, similar to the upper floors. The fifth-floor joist bears a merchant’s mark, likely added in the Baltic before shipping. Original floor boards have openings. The fifth floor retains an original wooden shutter with hinges and an iron bar. The roof structure consists of thin timber pieces with angled struts, metal hangars and clamps, a ridgepiece, and wooden dragon posts, with one wooden box gutter. Later 20th-century staircases have been added, but the balustrading on the western staircase incorporates five wooden hatch bars with iron fittings and hinges, salvaged from Thames lighters. Later 20th-century partitions are also present.

The building's characteristic shape first appeared on a Rating Plan from 1843. A 1857 survey identified it as a five-story granary occupied by W W Landell. The uneven floors are attributed to the weight of stored grain. At the time of the survey, it was the last riverside warehouse in the London Borough of Southwark remaining in active industrial use. It sits within a well-preserved group of warehouses along the Thames, rising directly from the quay, near St Mary Rotherhithe, and marks the western termination of the sequence.