Tower and Lodge, Wapping

Hydraulic Tower at Wapping Dock 
1856 
Grade II 

At the south end of Wapping Warehouse stands the restored hydraulic power station, which supplied the power for the warehouse. 

It is the most southerly of Hartley's "defensive" line of pseudo historic "castles", which guarded Liverpool docks. It has a battered "Cyclopean" granite base, whilst the upper part is octagonal brickwork with rusticated stone quoins. 

The date 1856 is incised at the top of the east face and it has a battlemented parapet on granite machicolations. 

Gatekeeper's Lodge at entrance to Wapping Dock 
1856 
Grade II 

This is a particularly fanciful example of a Hartley gatekeeper's shelter, with its battered sides, chamfered plinth, corbelled cornice and short, oval plan, spire. 

It has a stylised window, entrance gate slot and blind arrow slit motif.