Hanover House
HANOVER HOUSE, 49-60, BOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378373
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover House
- Statutory Address:
- HANOVER HOUSE, 49-60, BOROUGH ROAD
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- 2001-09-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/05704/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378373
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANOVER HOUSE, 49-60, BOROUGH ROAD
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:
- HANOVER HOUSE, 49-60, BOROUGH ROAD
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 32039 79534
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3279 BOROUGH ROAD 636-1/5/107 (North side) 27/09/72 Nos.49-60 (Consecutive) Hanover House (Formerly Listed as: BOROUGH ROAD (North side) Nos.49-60 (Consecutive))
GV II
Factory, now offices. c1889. For Day and Martin, blacking manufacturers. Yellow brick with stucco dressings, curved corrugated-iron roof obscured. EXTERIOR: unified Classical composition, 4 storeys, basement and full attic to centre. Projecting centre 5-bay and end 1-bay sections, articulated above ground floor by flat, giant pilasters with decorative capitals supporting entablature with frieze and cornice; balustraded parapet over, except for central 3-bay section which projects farther, with pediment over 4 fluted, giant, modified Ionic columns. Above this section is attic storey with pilasters and central segmental pediment with acroteria. Banded rusticated stucco to ground-floor with cornice. Openings in main features round- or segmental-arched with voussoirs, except those of central feature outer bays, which have shouldered, battered architraves and pediments. Wide, flat-headed windows in intermediate sections have pilasters and entablature. Plain 1st-floor windows under recessed stucco panels. 2nd-floor windows are round-headed with stucco archivolts (except for those in end sections and outer bays of central section, which are square-headed with architraves, console bracketed cornices and pediments). Gauged, flat brick arches to 3rd-floor windows with bracketed stucco sills. All 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3203979534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470672
- 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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