A And E Warehouses, St John'S Wharves

1. 4431 TQ 3480 22/12

WAPPING HIGH STREET E1 'A' and 'B' Warehouses St John's Wharves

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2. C1860-70 warehouses, may have been a symmetrical group. 'A' warehouse is of 5 storeys stock brick, with granite dressings and reveals to ground floor flanking hatches of 3 bay symmetrical front. Channelled rustication to quoin pilasters. moulded brick cornice and parapet with central dormer hatch framed in brick with dentil cornice. The fifth floor bridge from the opposite side of road gives access to it. Flanking linked hatch ranks from first floor up, timber jambs only slightly recessed, segmental gauged arches. Centre bay has small paned iron frame segmental arched window to third and fourth floors. Hatches to floors below, that on second floor giving on to lower bridge across to north warehouse. 'E' warehouse is of 4 storeys and attic, stock brick with a 3 bay front, the coped parapet raised in gable over oculus. Segmental arched windows with Portland sills flanking hatch rank, the timber jambs only slightly recessed. River elevations have suffered some alteration, but are similar. Linked across Wapping High Street to St John's Wharves warehouses north block (qv)), by means of the now increasingly rare gantry gangways, this group of warehouses still preserve some of the cavernous, ravine-like quality which once characterised Wapping High St. They also have some architectural character, and preserve their original hoists.

Listing NGR: TQ3471080030