The Hop Exchange
THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385923
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Hop Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385923
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Hop Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK 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:
- THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK 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 32581 80171
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3280SE SOUTHWARK STREET 636-1/17/708 (North side) 13/02/70 No.24 The Hop Exchange (Formerly Listed as: SOUTHWARK STREET (North side) Central Buildings)
II
Commercial premises built as hop and malt exchange with offices and showrooms. 1866, By RH Moore. Stuccoed with cast-iron columns. EXTERIOR: 6 internal storeys and basement, but 3 giant storeys and basement on front. 39 bays. Extended ground-floor order of modified Corinthian half-columns of cast-iron resting on basement plinths with service doors between. Grand off-centre entrance portico rising through 2 storeys, 3 segmental-arched openings with masks on keys, the central opening wider. Keys support cornice and pediment which has eagle at apex and relief scene of brewing trade in tympanum. Elaborate iron gates with decoration of hop plants in entrance openings. 1st-floor segment-arched windows have plate tracery, architraves resting on cornices of lower Corinthian order and keystones which support cornice. 2nd floor has round-arched windows with plate tracery between pilasters with impost capitals. Parapet above has recessed corbelled section above each arch. INTERIOR: has galleried court of 4 levels under sky-light. Cast-iron balconies to upper 3 floors with balustrades elaborately decorated with hop plant decoration and monograms. Top storey rebuilt at a reduced height, and original glass and iron roof to exchange hall replaced after fire of 1920.
Listing NGR: TQ3256380172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471343
- 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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