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Latitude: 51.5042 / 51°30'15"N
Longitude: -0.0488 / 0°2'55"W
OS Eastings: 535520
OS Northings: 180171
OS Grid: TQ355801
Mapcode National: GBR J9.Y3H
Mapcode Global: VHGR1.3GK6
Plus Code: 9C3XGX32+MF
Entry Name: Air Shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
Listing Date: 1 July 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385839
English Heritage Legacy ID: 471251
Also known as: Shaft 2, Rotherhithe Tunnel
ID on this website: 101385839
Location: Shadwell, Southwark, London, SE16
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Rotherhithe
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Rotherhithe St Mary with All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Ventilation shaft
SOUTHWARK
TQ3580 ROTHERHITHE STREET
636-1/3/657 (North West side)
01/07/83 Air shaft to the Rotherhithe Tunnel
GV II
Air shaft 'drum' to Rotherhithe Tunnel. 1904-08. By Sir
Maurice Fitzmaurice, engineer. For the LCC. Red brick with
Portland stone dressings, no roof.
Circular single-storey building containing staircase down to
tunnel with 4 ventilation fans at low level. Projecting
doorway bay to south with stone quoins and 2 openings with
stone surrounds. Window bays around drum articulated by brick
pilaster strips rising from granite plinth to stone
corbel-bracketed cornice. Coupled narrow window openings, in
quoined stone surrounds, have decorative iron grilles with the
LCC monogram. The staircase is of iron with wrought balustrade
and cast lamp standards.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the tunnel was begun in 1904 and opened by
the Prince of Wales in 1908. The shaft complements its twin in
the King Edward VII Memorial Park, Shadwell (see London
Borough of Tower Hamlets).
Listing NGR: TQ3552080171
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