A rare find: Wapping gets first new warehouse conversion in a decade

Change is often dramatic in Docklands but Wapping holds on to its history.

Bordering the Square Mile, the St Katharine Docks tourist magnet is designed in keeping with original Georgian warehouses.

Cobbled Wapping High Street has listed wharves and inns named after brigands such as Captain Kidd. Even the gallows gibbet at Execution Dock remains.

Now Wapping is recapturing the cachet it had in the Eighties when it was top London spot for fashionable riverside living.

Red Lion Court is the first local warehouse refurbishment for more than a decade.

Sitting back from the Thames beside a small park, the ex-grain store with a traditional brick façade has been sensitively converted into 22 smart flats, including penthouses with full-height glass walls and a roof terrace.

Prices from £525,000 to £1.4 million. Call Knight Frank on 020 7718 5202.

London Dock, a new 1,800-home quarter on the old News International printworks site, could be a Wapping game changer, bringing swish new flats, a much-needed new hub with 30 shops, bars and eateries, plus seven acres of landscaped public space.

From £1.29 million. Call St George on 020 3773 9698.