Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 BOROUGH ROAD
636-1/5/107 (North side)
27/09/72 Nos.49-60 (Consecutive)
Hanover House
(Formerly Listed as:
BOROUGH ROAD
(North side)
Nos.49-60 (Consecutive))

GV II

Factory, now offices. c1889. For Day and Martin, blacking
manufacturers. Yellow brick with stucco dressings, curved
corrugated-iron roof obscured.
EXTERIOR: unified Classical composition, 4 storeys, basement
and full attic to centre. Projecting centre 5-bay and end
1-bay sections, articulated above ground floor by flat, giant
pilasters with decorative capitals supporting entablature with
frieze and cornice; balustraded parapet over, except for
central 3-bay section which projects farther, with pediment
over 4 fluted, giant, modified Ionic columns. Above this
section is attic storey with pilasters and central segmental
pediment with acroteria. Banded rusticated stucco to
ground-floor with cornice.
Openings in main features round- or segmental-arched with
voussoirs, except those of central feature outer bays, which
have shouldered, battered architraves and pediments. Wide,
flat-headed windows in intermediate sections have pilasters
and entablature. Plain 1st-floor windows under recessed stucco
panels. 2nd-floor windows are round-headed with stucco
archivolts (except for those in end sections and outer bays of
central section, which are square-headed with architraves,
console bracketed cornices and pediments). Gauged, flat brick
arches to 3rd-floor windows with bracketed stucco sills. All
1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3203979534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658781

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)