Transit Shed E

Transit Shed E is a warehouse built in 1894 by E Gabriel. It features a steel frame with red brick, engineering brick, and limestone dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building has a single-depth plan and is designed in a Jacobethan style, showcasing a functional warehouse design. It stands two storeys tall with a four-window range at the end and a ten-bay front elevation.

The end entrance elevation includes a pedimented three-window range and a right-hand octagonal three-storey dome. The ground floor displays alternating brick and stone bands, with a left-hand elliptical-arched carriage arch leading to the dockside, featuring alternate stone voussoirs, a carved key, and a cornice. First-floor corner pilasters support the full-width pediment, which has bands at the cill, a transom band, and a wide lintel band, along with a modillion cornice, parapet, and a central raised segmental pediment.

The cross windows, fitted with metal glazing bars, have fluted jambs above the transom, rococo carved lintels, and a tympanum with carved female figures and strapwork, leading to a keyed oculus. The octagonal tower features alternate second-floor windows and mullion windows on the third floor, separated by panelled plinths that support urns, topped with an ogee leaded dome and a wrought-iron weather vane shaped like a sailing ship.

The dockside elevation has an open ground floor with engineering brick quoins, dressings, and a cornice, supported by ground-floor steel stanchions leading to a concrete loading shelf. There are sliding wooden doors to the second floor, with late 20th-century plate-glass windows set between. The interior has been converted to shops and offices, but retains the original steel truss roof and steel work. The building was given a polite end elevation to conceal the roof from College Green at the request of the Port Authorities.