Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3179 WEST SQUARE
636-1/4/852 (South side)
27/09/72 Nos.20-24 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WEST SQUARE
(South side)
Nos.20-24 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses. c1800. Yellow brick with stucco
dressings; dentil cornice and parapet (No.20 with stucco
modillion cornice instead of parapet).
3 storeys and basement, 2 bays each (except No.20 which has 3
bays). Round-headed doorways in round-arched recesses with
stuccoed keys and impost blocks continuous with break-front
cornice heads; decorative fanlights and original doors. No.21
has slender attached, reeded Doric columns to jambs. No.22 has
fluted jambs; No.23 has reeded half-columns and reeded cornice
head. No.24 (with stuccoed ground floor) has entrance on
return with console bracketed dentil cornice, recessed,
round-arched door with moulded spandrels and cornice head and
decorative fanlight; moulded architraves to windows. All other
windows have flat, gauged-brick arches to 4-, 6- and 12-pane
sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron area railings.
The buildings in West Square form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3158379018

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665797

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)