Air Shaft To The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Air shaft. 1 related planning application.
Air Shaft To The Rotherhithe Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- sunken-lintel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1983
- Type
- Air shaft
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3580 ROTHERHITHE STREET 636-1/3/657 (North West side) 01/07/83 Air shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
GV II
Air shaft 'drum' to Rotherhithe Tunnel. 1904-08. By Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, engineer. For the LCC. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, no roof. Circular single-storey building containing staircase down to tunnel with 4 ventilation fans at low level. Projecting doorway bay to south with stone quoins and 2 openings with stone surrounds. Window bays around drum articulated by brick pilaster strips rising from granite plinth to stone corbel-bracketed cornice. Coupled narrow window openings, in quoined stone surrounds, have decorative iron grilles with the LCC monogram. The staircase is of iron with wrought balustrade and cast lamp standards. HISTORICAL NOTE: the tunnel was begun in 1904 and opened by the Prince of Wales in 1908. The shaft complements its twin in the King Edward VII Memorial Park, Shadwell (see London Borough of Tower Hamlets).
Listing NGR: TQ3552080171
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