London Bridge Hospital (Part)

LONDON BRIDGE HOSPITAL (PART), 17-25, TOOLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385964
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:
London Bridge Hospital (Part)
Statutory Address:
LONDON BRIDGE HOSPITAL (PART), 17-25, TOOLEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385964
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
London Bridge Hospital (Part)
Statutory Address 1:
LONDON BRIDGE HOSPITAL (PART), 17-25, TOOLEY STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LONDON BRIDGE HOSPITAL (PART), 17-25, TOOLEY 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 32927 80301

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE TOOLEY STREET 636-1/17/772 (North side) 01/07/83 Nos.17-25 (Odd) London Bridge Hospital (part) (Formerly Listed as: TOOLEY STREET Nos.17-25 Colonial House)

GV II

Commercial building, now part of London Bridge Hospital. 1903. By CS Peach of Peach and Reilly. MATERIALS: ornate red brick and buff terracotta dressed elevation with free use of early C17 details and Baroque touches; hipped slate roof with lofty chimneys on ridge. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with full attic storey, further attics and half-sunk basement. 9-bay front with end bays faced in terracotta breaking forward slightly as wings with broken pediments above 2nd floor supported by pilaster strips rising from cartouche and console brackets flanking ground floor doorway and window respectively with rusticated voussoirs and decorative keystone. Wings have attic storey decorated with floral pendants, with decorative cornice to window. Ground-floor office front faced in terracotta articulated by range of engaged Doric columns carrying deeply moulded cornice breaking forward over doorway with broken pediment above. Small canted and shafted bay windows with aprons and segmental-headed basement lights with heavy keystones beneath. 1st and 2nd floors have close-set mullioned and transomed windows in terracotta architraves with bracketed sills and cornices (1st floor). Central 1st-floor window projects with segmental head and wrought-iron "pergola" balcony over doorway. Similar windows to wings with same balconies at 1st floor. Egg-and-dart bead moulding to main cornice above 2nd floor, with plain attic level above topped by further "weaving shed" attic in roof with additional central dormer above. Building treated similarly on east return. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 17-25 (odd) Tooley Street now connected to river building behind by glazed walkway.



Listing NGR: TQ3292780301

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Legacy System number:
471384
Legacy System:
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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.

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