Houses in Red Lion Street
Houses in Red Lion Street
Record No
120041
Title
Houses in Red Lion Street
Description
Houses in Red Lion Street (now Reardon Street and Reardon Path), Wapping. At the left on the arched brickwork over an alleyway it says Red Lion Court. There are three three-storey houses with basements and attics. On the house nearest to the alley way, there are Corinthian capitals topping fluted pilasters each side of the front door, a small canopy above the door and three dilapidated steps up to the doorstep. One of the windows is broken, two windows on the top floor are bricked up and one of the basement windows is boarded up. The next two houses both have arched porches and ground-floor windows and iron bars and cages over the basement windows. All three houses have support bolts in their front walls above the first floor and the house nearest the alley way also has bolts above the ground floor. The last house is supported by wooden props. The street is cobbled. None of these houses still exist. Between 1926 and 1932, the street was redeveloped as part of London County Council’s Wapping housing scheme. The southern part of Red Lion Street was widened by Stepney Borough Council and in 1938 was renamed Reardon Path; the northern part was renamed Reardon Street. Slum housing was replaced by twelve blocks of flats named after famous sailors and explorers who had sailed out from the East End docks. These flats were renovated during the development phase that began in the 1970s and still exist under their original names. Beechey House, Parry House, Willoughby House and Vancouver House are all in Reardon Path. Red Lion Court is immediately to the south of Willoughby House. It was a grain warehouse and has been converted into luxury flats.
Date of execution
1924
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_397_A1712
London picture map location
Exact
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