New Concordia Wharf, North East Block With Water Tower And Chimney

SOUTHWARK

TQ3379 MILL STREET 636-1/5/523 (West side) 09/02/82 No.27 New Concordia Wharf, north-east block with water tower and chimney (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET St Saviour's Dock; New Concordia Wharf north-east warehouse block & water tower)

GV II

Cornmill and warehouse block including chimney and water tower, now residential and commercial use. 1882, reconstructed 1894-8 after fire, restored and converted 1981-3. Stock brick with yellow brick dressings and stepped brick parapet with coping. PLAN: part of a complex of buildings around a courtyard on east side of St Saviour's Dock. EXTERIOR: main street elevation of 6 storeys, 8 bays. Full-height hatch rank in 3rd bay from right, now installed with balconies. Ground-floor left 3 bays have blank windows, a recent timber shop front to their right. All windows have segmental, gauged yellow brick arches. Some recessed drainpipes. Attached to S end of range by yard entrance is a brick chimney stack on a moulded stone base, recently rebuilt at top. Chimney is raised on a tall square brick pedestal with arched panels and a moulded Portland stone cornice. Tall brick water tower to north-west (linking with dockside range) of 8 storeys. Top 'belvedere' has 3 arched recesses to each face, now containing windows, with projecting metal parapet above. Open at ground floor as walkway; windows now altered, with balconies added to each floor. Gabled south return and yard elevation of range have similar window details to street elevation. Some of the structural cruciform cast-iron columns have been exposed to yard. New elevation to north where previously another warehouse was attached. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of former St Saviour's Flour Mill; strong group value with the other New Concordia Wharf buildings (qqv), and the whole range of warehouses in Mill Street (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ3400479868