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Latitude: 51.4987 / 51°29'55"N
Longitude: -0.0809 / 0°4'51"W
OS Eastings: 533311
OS Northings: 179493
OS Grid: TQ333794
Mapcode National: GBR TJ.ZY
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.KL3H
Plus Code: 9C3XFWX9+FM
Entry Name: 187 and 189, Bermondsey Street
Listing Date: 1 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376565
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470569
ID on this website: 101376565
Location: Bermondsey, Southwark, London, SE1
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Grange
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Bermondsey St Mary Magdalen, St Olave, St John and St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
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SOUTHWARK
TQ3379 BERMONDSEY STREET
636-1/5/44 (East side)
01/07/88 Nos.187 AND 189
GV II
Hostel, now studios with flats above. Dated 1907-8. Probably
by Sir Reginald Blomfield. For Time and Talents Association.
MATERIALS: English bond purple brick with red brick and stone
dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof with dormers behind
sagging, stone-coped parapet.
STYLE: Arts and Crafts.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic, 2 bays. Recessed and
roughcast ground-floor front articulated by banded piers of
dark brick and Portland stone with stylised Ionic capitals.
Right bay has fielded 8-panel door with oval overlights,
similar 6-panelled door to right. Left bay has pair of sash
windows with glazing bars set in moulded wood architrave with
roundels in corners; basement below. Arts and Crafts lettering
to carved stone frieze above reads "TIME AND TALENTS
SETTLEMENT".
1st and 2nd floors articulated by raised red brick quoin and
central pilasters. Gauged, red brick flat arches and red brick
dressings to horned 12-pane sashes set in moulded wood
architraves with roundels in corners; paired slit lights at
sides now filled in. Right side has steeply pitched
crow-stepped gable hiding attic windows. Brick end stacks.
INTERIOR: believed to have some original features including
grand chimneypiece on 1st floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Time and Talents Association was an
Anglican quasi-missionary organisation set up in 1895 by West
End women to help young working girls and women, and was a
prominent part of the 1880-1914 settlement movement.
Listing NGR: TQ3331179493
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