Shadwell Basin Housing, 5-54 (cons) Maynards Quay, 1-62 (cons) Newlands Quay and 1-35 (odd) Peartree Lane

Flats, maisonettes and houses comprising the Newlands Quay, Maynards Quay and Peartree Lane developments, constructed between 1986 and 1988 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and Wright for the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC).

The complex consists of loadbearing masonry faced with brown bricks, steel panels and reconstituted stone blocks, with timber framed windows now largely replaced in powder-coated aluminium. The distinctive colour scheme features red steel panels and doors contrasted with dark blue windows and balconies.

The dwellings are arranged in terraced groups around three sides of the New Shadwell Basin. Newlands Quay and Maynards Quay, positioned at the north-west corner, comprise two adjacent groups of five-storey flats and maisonettes. Behind Maynard Quay stands a group of five detached monopitched houses built end-on to Garnet Street and separated by a brick wall, though these are not included in the listing. A lower three-storey group at Peartree Lane defines the north-east corner, with the intervening gap framing views toward St Paul's Church, built 1817-1820 by John Walters. Adjoining the road bridge over the basin entrance is a three-storey terrace of four houses. Behind the north-east group are two detached houses accessed off Peartree Lane. Benson Quay (not included in the listing) completes the complex at the south-west corner, comprising an almshouse-like U-shaped group of two-storey houses with a terrace of five-storey flats to the west. A relatively high density was achieved by locating service rooms, kitchens and bathrooms at the centre of the plan with larger living rooms overlooking the water and bedrooms facing backward.

The five-storey terraces of Newlands and Maynards Quays are articulated by a rhythm of solid brick and masonry blocks interspersed with linking sections of glass and red-painted steel cladding with metal balconies in contrasting blue. The brick elements are composed of paired but separated sections with monopitch roofs, giving the impression of split pediments. Square casement and oversized porthole windows punctuate the façade, while the ground floor is clad in reconstituted stone blocks. The upper storeys project over an arcuated colonnade with concrete columns, beams and soffits. Projecting from the side elevations are cantilevered elongated steel bays recalling dockside cranes and gantries. Rear elevations are similar but with continuous brick walls into which are set groups of square windows. Arches highlight the main entrances to the apartments, while the ground floor colonnade of Maynards Quay shelters car parking spaces.

The three-storey Peartree Lane group wraps around the north-east corner of the basin and extends along the entrance canal to the east. The buildings share the composition, materials and colour scheme of the five-storey ranges, with gabled structures of three bays, colonnade and large round-arched windows, linked by lower recessed glazed sections with metal balconies. Rear elevations have projecting bays on the first floor supported on concrete columns with round-arched French-windows above. The terrace of four three-storey houses fronting the canal are simpler, with flat frontages enlivened by metal first-floor balconies with French-windows. Two detached houses placed either side of a metal archway onto Peartree Lane create a close with the other blocks. These houses have a three-storey pitched-roof main section and stepped two and single-storey roof-terraced side blocks. The main section features metal-clad first-floor bays supported on concrete columns adjoining the archway, with second-floor half-circle windows facing the street.

The entrance foyers and stairwells are functional with concrete stairs with metal balustrades incorporating metal mesh panels. The remainder of the interiors were not inspected in 2017.

Brick boundary walls and blue-painted steel gates and fences enclose Peartree Lane.