Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society Headquarters Building
ROYAL ARSENAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, 125-153, POWIS STREET SE18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1289022
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1989
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARSENAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, 125-153, POWIS STREET SE18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1289022
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1989
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ARSENAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, 125-153, POWIS STREET SE18
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARSENAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, 125-153, POWIS STREET SE18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 43329 79051
Details
TQ 4379 8/1
POWIS STREET, SE18,
Nos 125-153 (odd) (RACS Headquarters Building)
II
Large commercial premises with retail outlet. 1903, by F Bethell for Royal
Arsenal Co-operative Society. Red brick with terracotta dressings; slate roof.
Italian Renaissance style. 2 to 3 storeys; symmetrical 21-bay facade. Mid C20
plate-glass windows to ground floor. Central 3-storey, 11-bay range: central 4-
storey clock tower has terracotta facade articulated by fluted composite pilasters
to each storey, semi-circular moulded arch set on Composite jambs to doorway, statue
of Alexander McLeod (Society's Treasurer) by A. Drury set in open-pedimented
aedicule with Composite pilasters, raised relief lettering bearing Society's motto
etc to 2nd and 3rd storeys, and console cornice beneath copper-domed clock tower
with segmental pediments set on half-columns to angled corners; first floor has
2-light semi-circular arched windows with decorative spandrels revealed in
segmental-arched moulded architraves with pilasters; similar semi-circular arched
architraves to second floor windows; bays are separated by Composite pilasters with
enriched ornament to first-floor console cornice with enriched panelled frieze and
to 2nd floor dentilled cornice with scrolled frieze; gabled outer bays, faced in
terracotta, have canted bay windows with balustrade parapet and fluted Composite
pilasters. 2-storey, 5-bay outer bays, in similar style, each have balustrade
parapet and central scroll-pedimented dormer with Composite pilasters flanking
Ipswich window. The style of this building consciously imitated Harrods of
Knightsbridge.
Listing NGR: TQ4332979051
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 398173
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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