59 AND 61, UNION STREET
59 AND 61, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386009
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 59 AND 61, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 59 AND 61, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386009
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 59 AND 61, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59 AND 61, UNION 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:
- 59 AND 61, UNION 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 32343 80040
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3280 UNION STREET 636-1/2/820 (South side) 27/09/72 Nos.59 AND 61
II
House with shop. Early C19, rebuilt at back, front restored later C20. Brick with good timber shop front and gateway, moulded stone cornice and blocking course above. 3 storeys, 4 bays with gated archway entrance in left 2 bays at ground level leading to yard at rear. Panelled shop front has central double door with large window on either side, each with a decorative fanlight of radiating metal bars. Shop windows also have (altered) grilles. Oval Corinthian pilasters between openings support bracketed wood cornice at 1st-floor level which extends the full width of front. Entrance to left has double gates of plain vertical wooden grilles, shaped above to a hollow curve, with panelling beneath and to the sides. 1st and 2nd floors have flat, gauged-brick arches to revealed sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: derelict at time of survey, but much of the C19 interior survives. (Survey of London: Roberts H: Survey of London: Bankside: London: 1950-).
Listing NGR: TQ3234380040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Bankside The Parishes of St Saviour and Christchurch Southwark: Volume 22 , (1950)
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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