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Latitude: 51.5 / 51°30'0"N
Longitude: -0.0641 / 0°3'50"W
OS Eastings: 534472
OS Northings: 179673
OS Grid: TQ344796
Mapcode National: GBR YJ.RG
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.TKZG
Entry Name: 48, Farncombe Street
Listing Date: 1 July 1983
Last Amended: 17 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385524
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470923
Location: Southwark, London, SE16
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Riverside
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Bermondsey St James with Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
SOUTHWARK
TQ3479 FARNCOMBE STREET
636-1/6/339 (East side)
01/07/83 No.48
(Formerly Listed as:
FARNCOMBE STREET, Bermondsey
Thames Water Authority Office)
II
Former office. Dated 1822. For the sewer pumping station (now
demolished). Stock brick with stone dressings, shallow stone
frieze, cornice and blocking course.
2-storey wedge-shaped corner building with 3-bay front. Brick
quoin pilasters. Ground floor has small segmental gauged-brick
arched windows set in segmental-arched panels reaching down to
stone plinth. Flat gauged-brick arches to 2 first-floor
windows (C20 metal casements) flanking Portland stone Doric
plaque inscribed: "Sewers Surrey and Kent, Duffield Sluice,
1822". Painted stone plat band between floors.
One-bay splayed return to left has similar details; blocked
doorway with cornice on console brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An early sewerage building, predating the present system,
begun in 1858. Dates from first phase of dock expansion.
Listing NGR: TQ3447279673
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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