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SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 COLE STREET
636-1/5/875 (South West side)
23/10/95 Nos.26 AND 28

II

Warehouse. 1826-27. By William Chadwick, builder. Brick in
Flemish bond. Hipped roof of slate. Roughly rectangular in
plan, approx 27m to each long side.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Long elevation has range of 8 windows,
the 3rd and 6th functioning as hoist ranges. Entrance to right
party wall. Short return has 3-window range articulated by
shallow brick arcade spanning first, 2nd and top floors. The
windows on the return have been rebuilt, but follow roughly
the plan of those on the long elevation and thus do not
compromise the structure's historic character. Ground floor of
the return is blind except for pair of small windows at lower
left. All openings segmental-arched; windows to long elevation
with original cast-iron lattice glazing. Glazing to hoist
range appears also to be original. C19 hoist arm to top of
right-hand hoist range.
Rear elevation has blind brick arcades similar to those on the
return, 5 in number.
INTERIOR: plan on original lease now in the Guildhall Library
shows an interior divided into 5 bays by slender uprights; the
latter are reported to be timber. The bays backing the hoist
ranges are slightly wider than the rest.
A good example of early C19 warehousing and remarkably
complete. Constructed as the large houses in Trinity Church
Square were being completed (qqv), it illustrates the rapid
transformation of the area from suburban to commercial use in
the 3rd decade of the C19.
(Merrick's Charity, Cole Street leases, 1817-1952: Ms
No.30254).

Listing NGR: TQ3249879508