TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE

TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE, TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, SOUTHWARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385981
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE
Statutory Address:: TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE, TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, SOUTHWARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385981
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE, TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, SOUTHWARK

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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:: TOWER BRIDGE BRIDGEMASTERS HOUSE (BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATE) AND GATE TO SIDE, TOWER BRIDGE ROAD, SOUTHWARK

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 33583 80077

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/02/2013

TQ3380 636-1/2/794 01/07/83

SOUTHWARK TOWER BRIDGE ROAD (West side) Tower Bridge Bridgemaster's House (Bridge House Estate) and gate to side

(Formerly Listed as: TOWER BRIDGE ROAD Tower Bridge Bridgemasters House (Bridge House Estate))

GV II

Detached bridgemaster's house on west side of Tower Bridge approach, partly office. Dated 1906. By Sydney Perks. Red brick, with Portland stone flush faced ground floor, frieze, cornice, blocking course and banded quoins to front elevation. Stock brick south return and rear. 3 storeys with lower level beneath bridge approach, 3 bays with early C18-style detailing. Recessed door to right hand bay with bolection architrave, swept up at head. Central 1st-floor window has pedimented eared architrave and a Rococo cartouche keystone rising to its sill from the window below. Gauged brick segmental arches to all other windows which are flush-framed sashes with glazing bars and brick aprons below sills. North return has 1 Venetian window at 1st floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a wrought-iron gate to right gives access to steps down to lower level Tower Bridge workshops in yard beside and beneath the bridge approach.

Listing NGR: TQ3358380077

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Legacy System number:: 471401
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.