East India Wharf

East India Wharf is a large warehouse granary built around 1850-1851, located on Rotherhithe Street in Southwark. The building features long returns that extend back towards St Marychurch Street. It is constructed of yellow stock brick and has a slate roof behind a pair of gable ends facing the street, with plain parapet copings on the returns. The street elevation rises four storeys and consists of three bays for each gable, topped with oculi. There are two ranks of hatches with gantry gangways connecting to Nos 101 and 103 Rotherhithe Street. The windows are small, two-light openings with cambered arches, with the ground floor windows being longer and fitted with metal grilles.

The west elevation includes two return bays that project from the main range of seven bays, with hatch ranks on the second and third floors of the two-bay projection. The window details are similar to those on the street front. The slate roof is divided by a firewall and features a small clerestorey ventilator on the right-hand ridge.

Inside, the structure is primarily timber, with a few cast-iron cruciform-section stanchions on the ground floor. The timber posts are fitted with bracket spreader caps, and the roof is a queen post design. At the time of the survey, the building was empty and derelict. East India Wharf is part of one of the best remaining groups of warehouses along the Thames, clustered around the spire of St Mary Rotherhithe on St Marychurch Street. It has strong group value with Nos 101 and 103 Rotherhithe Street, connected by gantry gateways across the street, and it predates the second period of expansion in this part of the docklands.