THE HOP EXCHANGE

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
List Entry Name:: THE HOP EXCHANGE
Statutory Address:: THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385923
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: THE HOP EXCHANGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE HOP EXCHANGE, 24, SOUTHWARK STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 471343
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.