Hibernia Chambers
HIBERNIA CHAMBERS, 2, BOROUGH HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376633
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hibernia Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- HIBERNIA CHAMBERS, 2, BOROUGH HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376633
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hibernia Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIBERNIA CHAMBERS, 2, BOROUGH HIGH 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:
- HIBERNIA CHAMBERS, 2, BOROUGH HIGH 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 32752 80372
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3280SE BOROUGH HIGH STREET 636-1/17/72 (West side) 27/04/70 No.2 Hibernia Chambers
GV II
Formerly known as: Hibernia Chambers LONDON BRIDGE. Commercial chambers. 1850. By William Cubitt. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with substantial basement plinth and 8 bays to Borough High Street; 2 main storeys with lower-level basement storey and 6 bays to south return. Main elevation has each outer bay flanked by giant pilasters on 2 planes supporting heavy entablature with panelled frieze and modillion cornice with balustraded parapet above. Each outer bay has entrance opening in stone architrave, treated as ground-floor windows but with segmental pediment above (right one is now a window). Ground-floor sash windows with glazing bars have architraves, friezes and cornices on console brackets. 1st-floor sash windows with glazing bars have shouldered architraves. South return treated similarly except that there are pilasters between all windows and an arcaded basement storey of banded rustication. INTERIOR: not inspected. Until reconstructed in 1976, this area below Borough High Street level was warehouses. The London Provision Exchange was established at Hibernia Chambers at the beginning of the C20.
Listing NGR: TQ3274580387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470639
- 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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