Description

WAPPING HIGH STREET E1
1.
4431
TQ 3480 22/11 GV Wapping Police Station
II

2.
1907-10 police station, architect John Dixon Butler. Road side block of 2
storeys and attic, linked across central yard to riverside 3 storey block.
Restrained design not surprisingly in a Norman Shaw derived style. Five bay
street front of finely pointed light grey-brown brick with Portland ashlar
dressings. Flush spaced quoins and flush plat bands at ground floor lintel
level and as first floor sill band. Similar frieze and shaped stone-brackets
to deep flat eaves. Flush quoining and stone coping to raised gable ends
capped by banded stacks. Short pentice pitch to slate roof back from eaves
changing to near vertical mansard attic with casement dormers: moulded cornices
and alternating, stepped in, semi-circular and triangular pediments. Two
light glazing bar sash windows to first floor. Mullion-transom casements
to ground floor. Carriage archway in second bay from left with slightly eared
architrave surround, stepped keystone to lintel, lower part of jambs tile
faced. Area railings of simple Arts and Crafts design. Flush squared stone
miillioned transomed windows to west passage elevation,
The river front has a symmetrical 3 bay 4 storey elevation. Spaced flush
stone quoins up into second floor terminating in short sections of cornice
moulding acting as corbel stops for an applied moulded stone gable peaking
in the centre of the parapet which has swept stone copings over the flanking
attic bays. The outer bays under the gable have tiered oriel-bay windows
with stone dressings, on 3 storeys to left but to right stopping short above
ground floor hatch with glazing and small paned side lights. Narrow stone
linteled windows to centre on ground and first floors with 2 light stone mullioned
casement on second floor, the lintel extended out as plat band. Two light
narrow sashes to attic. See also Coldharbour E2 for the father's (John Butler)
Blackwall River Police Station. J D Butler succeeded his father as Metropolitan
Police architect in 1895.

Listing NGR: TQ3483280030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081836

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)