About Telfords Yard

Telfords Yard is a predominantly residential warehouse conversion based on The Highway in Wapping, London. One of the earliest conversions of its kind, Telfords Yard opened its doors to residents in 1988 and boasts many period features such as exposed brick-work walls, exterior crane jibs and double door loading bays, a reflection of its heritage as wool warehouse from the late 19th century when ships would arrive from Australia and New Zealand and berth in the adjacent London Docks. Today, Telfords Yard is ideally located for both of London’s financial districts, being an easy walk to The City and a short distance also from Canary Wharf, again, easily walkable but also accessed from the nearby Docklands Light Railway stations of Tower Hill and Shadwell.

More socially, Telfords Yard is within walking distance of world famous attractions such as the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, some of London’s oldest pubs (Prospect of Whitby and Town of Ramsgate) and increasingly world class restaurants such as Michelin starred Restaurant Story and Jason Atherton’s City Social.

Telfords Yard – A (very) Brief History

The building in which we live, and which most of us refer to as Telfords Yard was built as a wool warehouse in the 1882 by Gooch and Cousens. As the website

http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/woolwarehouses.html

notes:

Around 1985 Gooch’s warehouse on The Highway was converted by architects CZWG to provide 68 apartments and 14 commercial units around the central court, with a 24 hour concierge service. It was named ‘Telford’s Yard’, since the construction of St Katharine’s Docks in 1828 was designed and overseen by the famous civil engineer Thomas Telford (the architect of the warehouses being Philip Hardwick). The project was reviewed in the Architects’ Journal 1987 (vol 185).