Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3477SE ASYLUM ROAD
636-1/40/19 (West side)
28/02/62 Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent
Institution (Caroline Gardens)
Nos.111-176
(Formerly Listed as:
ASYLUM ROAD
Back range of Licensed Victuallers'
Benev Inst'n(111-176)& Day Centre
adjoining)

GV II

Back range of Caroline Gardens, a complex of former almshouses
including day centre. 1849-66. By Henry Rose. Stock brick with
stucco cornice and plain blocking course. Splayed U-plan range
with projecting section at end of south arm; lanes leading
through, and houses facing out both ways.
EXTERIOR: each house, 2 storeys, 3 bays. Stucco angle
pilasters; some slightly projecting sections defined by
pilasters. Double doors in plain reveals with oblong
overlights. Gauged, cambered brick arches to sash windows with
glazing bars. Stucco string course with brick string below
above 1st floor. Day centre wing (projecting northwards by 4
bays): north elevation of 2 storeys, 3 main bays, 2 doorways
to centre with flanking pilasters supporting entablature;
blind arcade of 4 above. Other openings with eared
architraves, those to 1st floor blind. Stucco cornice and
blocking course continued above this elevation, with
acroterion over centre.
Street elevation of 2 storeys, 3 bays with stucco architrave,
frieze, cornice and pediment on 4 giant Doric pilasters.
Stucco architraves to central door and sash windows with
glazing bars, those to ground floor with panels below.
1st-floor sill band and low stucco plinth.
3-storey, 1 bay projecting extension to left in later, more
ornate style. Stucco angle pilasters with decorative capitals
supporting entablature with modillion cornice and pediment.
Full height bow window to street; pedimented entrance with
keyed oculus above to right. Sill bands to each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Nos 111-176 Caroline Gardens form part of a huge complex
consisting of double U-shaped ranges around central garden
with wide court in between.

Listing NGR: TQ3470277304

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26895027

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)