Description

RAILWAY STREET
1.
5113
(West Side)
SE 1416 NW 1/43 11.2.77. Nos 2 to 6 (even)
II* GV
2.
Mid C19. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 4 storeys. Deeply moulded modillion
eaves cornice. The design falls into 2 slightly dissimilar parts, separated
by a central bay which is as follows. Segment-headed carriage entrance on
ground floor. 1st and 2nd floors have tripartite windows in moulded frames.
Central light on both floors breaks forward slightly. On 1st floor, it has
a balustrade with vase-shaped balusters, Tuscan pilasters, quintuple keystones
(central one gadrooned) and triangular pediment. Above pediment 2 triglyph-like
consoles link it to the cill of the 2nd floor window. Central light on 2nd
floor has an individual frame with a keystone and broken segmental pediment.
3rd floor window has plain pilasters and brackets to cornice. The southerly
part has raised quoins. 5 ranges of sashes, with moulded surrounds, pulvinated
friezes and cornices on 1st floor. 2nd floor windows linked to them by fluted
consoles; moulded surrounds and triangular pediments on consoles. 3rd floor
windows have shouldered moulded surrounds. The northerly part has continuous
moulded sill bands to 2nd and 3rd floor. Continuous marbled impost band to
ground floor windows, below which ground floor is horizontally rusticated.
Moulded plinth. Vermiculated and rusticated quoins. 5 ranges of sashes.
Ground floor windows round-arched with vermiculated keystones. Centrally
placed door in concave niche. 1st floor windows have moulded surrounds gadrooned
keystones, frames with pulvinated friezes and triangular pediments, and balustrades
on consoles with vase-shaped balusters. Above pediments 2 triglyph-like consoles
link them to cills of 2nd floor windows these have moulded surrounds and cornices.
3rd floor windows are separated by sunk and moulded panels, and have plain
pilasters and brackets to cornices. Curved end bay to St George's Square.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors are the same as in the central bay. Ground floor
has panelled double doors with segment-headed fanlight, rusticated jambs with
festooned roundels at top, moulded impost and transom, festooned and gadrooned
keystone and moulded cornice. Area with cast iron railings.

Listing NGR: SE1434616762

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548118

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)