Number 9 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 9 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 9, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385872
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Number 9 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 9 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 9, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385872
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 9 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 9 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 9, ST THOMAS 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:
- NUMBER 9 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 9, ST THOMAS 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 32780 80184
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3280SE ST THOMAS STREET 636-1/17/734 (North side) 06/12/49 No.9 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: ST THOMAS'S STREET (North side) Chapter House Annexe, No.9)
GV II*
Treasurer's house of old St Thomas's Hospital, part becoming the later Chapter House Annexe, now all offices. c1706. Brown brick with red brick dressings, slate roof with dormers behind brick parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic. 7 bays. Left-hand section has wide, early C18 doorway with panelled Doric pilasters and carved scroll brackets supporting enriched cornice and broken segmental pediment. This originally formed an entrance to a covered passageway leading to Edward Square, part of the old hospital behind. Later door with fanlight and multi-light margins. To right, 2nd doorway with panelled pilasters, scroll brackets and broken pediment. 1st- and 2nd-floor sash windows with glazing bars in stucco-lined reveals with flat, gauged-brick arches and rubbed red brick surrounds. Brick string courses between floors. Rear (north) elevation treated in same manner as that of adjacent former Church of St Thomas, although levels do not coincide. Flat, gauged-brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars; Ionic pilasters in between rising through 2 storeys to modillion cornice. INTERIOR: altered for office use but retains some good features. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron area railings dated 1852. Forms, together with rear to No.9A, one of the more important survivals of Queen Anne architecture in London. No.9 forms a group with No.9A (former St Thomas's Church and later Chapter House) and Nos 11-15 (odd) (qv). No.9 was listed 27.09.72.
Listing NGR: TQ3278080186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471291
- 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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