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187 and 189, Bermondsey Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Southwark, London

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Coordinates

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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Description


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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