Surrey Dispensary

SURREY DISPENSARY, FALMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385522
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Surrey Dispensary
Statutory Address:
SURREY DISPENSARY, FALMOUTH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385522
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Surrey Dispensary
Statutory Address 1:
SURREY DISPENSARY, FALMOUTH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SURREY DISPENSARY, FALMOUTH 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 32605 79384

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 FALMOUTH ROAD 636-1/5/338 (North West side) Surrey Dispensary

II

Dispensary. c1840. Stucco, scored to imitate banded rustication and painted. Single storey. Segmental-arched door to left with a narrow round-arched light to the side; 3 round-arched windows to the right, before rebated front wall, which angles back to form join with No.42 Trinity Street (qv), and then 3 more round-arched openings. Parapet over entrance with inscription giving the date of the foundation of the Dispensary, in C20 lettering. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: founded in 1777, The Surrey Dispensary let premises in Union Street in 1787. According to an 1840 prospectus its aims were 'visitations' to 'lying-in women', the sick and injured. It was one of several such charities operating in Victorian Southwark and is thought to be the oldest in London.





Listing NGR: TQ3260579384

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
470921
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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