Eagle Wharf

Eagle Wharf is a warehouse, now used as residential and office space, situated along Shad Thames. The ground and first floors date to 1874, with the upper floors added in 1883, and the building was converted in the 1980s. Constructed of stock brick with white brick dressings, the warehouse has a parapet finished with Portland stone coping. It rises six storeys, with an eight-bay main elevation and a five-bay return to Lafone Street, three of which are blind. The front elevation incorporates two adapted hatch ranks with white brick, bull-nosed reveals; segmental arches in white brick frame windows fitted with iron-framed glazing. The interior is reported to retain some original features. Later alterations include concrete-encased columns on the ground floor and concrete beams supporting the floors above. However, the floors above these alterations are of timber, utilizing cross-section iron columns and iron spreader caps, formerly used with timber posts. Eagle Wharf forms an important part of the warehouse “canyon” along Shad Thames.