187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376565
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376565
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 187 AND 189, BERMONDSEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33311 79493
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3379 BERMONDSEY STREET 636-1/5/44 (East side) 01/07/88 Nos.187 AND 189
GV II
Hostel, now studios with flats above. Dated 1907-8. Probably by Sir Reginald Blomfield. For Time and Talents Association. MATERIALS: English bond purple brick with red brick and stone dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof with dormers behind sagging, stone-coped parapet. STYLE: Arts and Crafts. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic, 2 bays. Recessed and roughcast ground-floor front articulated by banded piers of dark brick and Portland stone with stylised Ionic capitals. Right bay has fielded 8-panel door with oval overlights, similar 6-panelled door to right. Left bay has pair of sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded wood architrave with roundels in corners; basement below. Arts and Crafts lettering to carved stone frieze above reads "TIME AND TALENTS SETTLEMENT". 1st and 2nd floors articulated by raised red brick quoin and central pilasters. Gauged, red brick flat arches and red brick dressings to horned 12-pane sashes set in moulded wood architraves with roundels in corners; paired slit lights at sides now filled in. Right side has steeply pitched crow-stepped gable hiding attic windows. Brick end stacks. INTERIOR: believed to have some original features including grand chimneypiece on 1st floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Time and Talents Association was an Anglican quasi-missionary organisation set up in 1895 by West End women to help young working girls and women, and was a prominent part of the 1880-1914 settlement movement.
Listing NGR: TQ3331179493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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