Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE BOROUGH HIGH STREET
636-1/17/72 (West side)
27/04/70 No.2
Hibernia Chambers

GV II

Formerly known as: Hibernia Chambers LONDON BRIDGE.
Commercial chambers. 1850. By William Cubitt. Yellow brick
with stone dressings. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with substantial basement plinth and 8
bays to Borough High Street; 2 main storeys with lower-level
basement storey and 6 bays to south return.
Main elevation has each outer bay flanked by giant pilasters
on 2 planes supporting heavy entablature with panelled frieze
and modillion cornice with balustraded parapet above. Each
outer bay has entrance opening in stone architrave, treated as
ground-floor windows but with segmental pediment above (right
one is now a window). Ground-floor sash windows with glazing
bars have architraves, friezes and cornices on console
brackets. 1st-floor sash windows with glazing bars have
shouldered architraves.
South return treated similarly except that there are pilasters
between all windows and an arcaded basement storey of banded
rustication.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Until reconstructed in 1976, this area below Borough High
Street level was warehouses. The London Provision Exchange was
established at Hibernia Chambers at the beginning of the C20.

Listing NGR: TQ3274580387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657167

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas