Numbers 29-45 and Attached Railings

NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 29-45, WEST SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1386043
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1972
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 29-45, WEST SQUARE
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Date:
2001-06-21
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1386043
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Sept-1998
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 29-45, WEST SQUARE

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 29-45 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 29-45, WEST SQUARE

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 31652 79049

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3179 WEST SQUARE 636-1/4/854 (East side) 27/09/72 Nos.29-45 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST SQUARE (East side) Nos.29-45 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 17 houses. 1794, with later alterations. Yellow brick with stucco dressings; dentil cornice and brick parapet (except for Nos 29-32 which have upper floors rebuilt, cornice removed and parapet raised, and No.45 which has stuccoed cornice and blocking course); slate mansards with dormers to Nos 29-32, 37-38 & 45. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (4 to No.36), basements and some attics; 2 bays each (No.45 one-bay). Doors all round-headed with decorative fanlights in stucco lined recesses (except for Nos 29-32 which have stucco architraves); break-front cornice heads continuous with stucco impost blocks, and keys. No.29 has panelled wood casing with fluted pilasters, frieze and cornice; original door with reeded half-columns and cornice head. No.45 has door on return with moulded architrave with vermiculated key to round-arched opening containing original door with cornice head. Centre section (Nos 35-38) slightly projecting on 2 planes with 1st-floor windows in round-arched recesses with stucco string at spring and sill band. Nos 43-44 also project slightly and have similar details. No.36 has stucco bowed front to ground floor. Nos 29-32 have stucco band at 1st-floor sills. All gauged, flat brick arches to windows, mostly sashes with glazing bars, except Nos 29-32 which have lengthened casements, No.29 with cast-iron balcony at 1st floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron hand rails and area railings. The terrace was designed as a unified composition. The buildings in West Square form a group.





Listing NGR: TQ3165279049

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