Blackwall Basin is a Grade I listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. A 1800-02 Basin.

Blackwall Basin

WRENN ID: floating-bronze-ebony
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Tower Hamlets
Country: England
Date first listed: 1 July 1983
Type: Basin
Source: Historic England listing

Description

1 WEST INDIA DOCKS 4431 TQ 3880 26/904 Blackwall Basin

1800-02 William Jessop engineer. The first non tidal basin in the Port of London. Same construction as Import and Export Docks with concave buttressed quay walls, the copings, mostly, surviving here, of good ashlar masonry. The locks enlarged in the 1890s follow in the tradition with brick lined chambers and granite quays. The lock into the Poplar Railway Dock dates from the 1890s, see under Preston's Road.

Listing NGR: TQ3813080156

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