Butlers Wharf Building Butlers Wharf West

This is a massive range of warehouses, built between 1871 and 1873 and likely extending an existing block. The building suffered fire damage and was partly rebuilt, with significant internal restoration occurring in the 1980s. Designed by Tolley and Dale, it is now used for residential and office purposes. The building is constructed from stock brick with white brick dressings and stucco detailing.

The exterior has six and seven storeys, with recent attic extensions. The symmetrical river front presents a unified design, featuring a slightly projecting central piece and end pavilions of seven storeys, with rusticated quoins. The central piece has a pedimented front with four bays, while the end pavilions have six bays, again with attic extensions. The link blocks between the pavilions are of six storeys and feature a parapet. A prominent cornice, bracketed with stucco, sits above the pavilions. The ground floor has cast-iron Doric columns, alternating in groups of three between brick piers, except at the end pavilions where they are in pairs. These columns originally formed a loggia, and support an iron girder "entablature" that carries the upper floors. A two-storey waggon-way portico is centrally placed, with detailing that mirrors the river and street elevations, featuring arcaded windows separated by columns and giant pilasters. White brick segmental arches are used over windows, and there are 14 hatch ranks, now adapted as balconies, with bull-nosed reveals. The street elevation, which follows the curve of the road, shares similar window detailing and 13 hatch ranks, along with swivel hoists. Segmental arches are also found over the ground-floor openings facing the street. Replica steel gangway bridges at the second and fifth-floor levels connect the building to the warehouse on the opposite side of the road, known as the Cardamom Building.

The interior, once demonstrating a variety of construction techniques and illustrating the transition from wood to iron in warehouse building, has been largely rebuilt except for elements of Butler's Wharf West, formerly the E block. Originally the largest wharf on the Thames, it is now the largest surviving part of a dockland "canyon," notable for its bridged relationship with the warehouses across the road.