Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280 SOUTHWARK STREET
636-1/2/709 (South side)
No.49

GV II

Warehouse, now offices. 1867 By Ernest Bates of Manchester and
London. For Robert J Bates. Stock brick with stone dressings
and low pitched slate roof. Curved corner plan with recessed
tower and hoist range to south bay of return.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and semi-basement, with 8-window range
including hoist bay. The top floor has a continuous arcade of
14 round-arched windows under segmental, pointed brick arches.
The 1st and 2nd floor windows are recessed, with each bay
articulated by tall chamfered brick piers surmounted at
2nd-floor level by segmental-pointed cut brick arches.
The ground-floor openings are round-arched, recessed, and
treated as a continuous arcade of slightly pointed cut brick
arches supported by brick piers with stone capitals and bases.
Elaborate and sharply cut brickwork to the bracketed cornice,
arched openings and paterae in the spandrels between the
ground-floor windows.
Unusual Gothic fenestration with plate glass survives, as does
the fanlight above the main entrance on Southwark Street, in
the extreme easternmost bay. This doorway is flanked by 2
piers of Peterhead granite colonnettes with Corinthian
capitals. The 4-panel double doors with pointed lights in the
top panels are also of an authentic design.
Projecting iron canopy to the 4th storey of tower shelters
hoist range with iron bracket; the balconies are a later
addition. Top floor of the hoist bay has a noteworthy exposed
timber roof structure.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Carefully restored during recent conversion to offices; an
excellent adaptation of High Victorian Gothic style for
commercial use. Forms a group with Nos 51 & 53 Southwark
Street (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3238480129

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665683

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