Listing Text

SOUTHWARK

TQ3577SW NEW CROSS ROAD
636-1/42/530 (South side)
19/07/63 Nos.10 AND 12
Carlton Cottages
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW CROSS ROAD
(South side)
Nos.6-12 (Even)
Carlton Cottages)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. 1829. Stucco with hipped slate
roof with overhanging eaves; central chimney stack.
2 storeys and basement, 2 bays each, the outer entrance bay
slightly lower and recessed with a separately hipped roof.
Steps up to square-headed doorways with plain reveals, No.12
with scalloped lead canopy (trellised wooden porches now
lost).
Central section articulated by 3 tall fluted pilasters
(flanking windows) which rise through both floors and have
ammonite capitals (a motif popularized by Amon Wilds at
Brighton and now very rare in London) supporting segmental
arches over 1st-floor windows. Windows are square-headed in
plain reveals, those in the central section with margin
lights. Ground-floor windows are tall casements with console
bracketed cornices, those to 1st floor are sashes with glazing
bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of a row formerly of 3 pairs; similar in style, and
possibly by same builder as Nos 864 & 866 Old Kent Road (qv).
Nos 6 & 8 (qv) and Nos 10 & 12 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3531377229