Leather Market

LEATHER MARKET, WESTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386046
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Leather Market
Statutory Address:
LEATHER MARKET, WESTON STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386046
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
Leather Market
Statutory Address 1:
LEATHER MARKET, WESTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LEATHER MARKET, WESTON 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 33016 79643

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3379 WESTON STREET 636-1/5/858 (East side) 27/09/72 Leather Market

GV II

Leather market, now mixed commercial uses. 1833, 3-bay section at right rebuilt more plainly after war. Multi-coloured stock brick with stone cornice and coped brick parapet to central section, lower stone cornice and brick parapet to left section. Long front of 3 storeys, 16 bays with 9-bay central section articulated with 10 giant, stone-capped pilasters on thick moulded stone bases, supporting architrave, frieze, modillion cornice and parapet with pilasters. High, projecting stone plinth to ground-floor with 4-bay left section containing 2-storey round-arched vehicle entrance with vermiculate rusticated voussoirs and plain keystone. Square-headed ground-floor openings have stone surrounds. 1st-floor windows have stone lintels, continuing as band across outer sections. 2nd-floor windows have gauged, flat brick arches. Many sash windows with glazing bars, not all matching. INTERIOR: not inspected. Good warehouse elevation to rear with brick modillion cornice, large hatch ranks and hoists. Various ground-floor openings; gauged-brick arches to windows, those at 1st floor flat, those at 2nd floor segmental. The rear forms one side of a courtyard of warehouse fronts, including No.8A Leathermarket Yard (qv), with which it forms a good group of C19 industrial buildings.



Listing NGR: TQ3301679643

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Legacy System number:
471467
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.

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