Latitude: 51.5045 / 51°30'16"N
Longitude: -0.0338 / 0°2'1"W
OS Eastings: 536558
OS Northings: 180223
OS Grid: TQ365802
Mapcode National: GBR K4.VJ9
Mapcode Global: VHGR1.CGG1
Plus Code: 9C3XGX38+QF
Entry Name: Nelson House Including Railings to Steps
Listing Date: 6 December 1949
Last Amended: 17 September 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385837
English Heritage Legacy ID: 471249
ID on this website: 101385837
Location: Southwark, London, SE16
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Surrey Docks
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Rotherhithe Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SOUTHWARK
TQ3680SE ROTHERHITHE STREET
636-1/21/655 (East side)
06/12/49 No.265
Nelson House including railings to
steps
(Formerly Listed as:
ROTHERHITHE STREET
No.265
Nelson Dock House)
GV II*
Shipbuilder's house, now offices. c1740. Stock brick with
stone details; octagonal glazed cupola flanked by chimney
stacks to roof behind rebuilt parapet with stone coping.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 bays. Front elevation has
curved stone steps with wrought-iron railings to door within
full-height, slightly projecting central stone frontispiece.
Doric order with triglyph frieze and cornice to panelled door
with patterned fanlight, and flanking side lights.
Above, at 1st floor, a Venetian window with architrave and
mask on key to centre section, Ionic order with dentil cornice
to outer sections, balustrade below. Curved pediment with side
scrolls over oculus on 2nd floor. Gauged, flat brick arches to
sash windows with glazing bars, those to ground and 1st floors
with bracketed sills. Stone cornice at 2nd floor. Rusticated
basement section beneath front entrance has recessed original
door and flanking oval windows.
Plain brick elevation to dock suitably embellished with grand
central timber doorcase. Attached Doric columns support
triglyph frieze with paterae in metopes, mutule cornice with
key pattern on soffit. Rusticated reveals to panelled door
with tripartite overlight. Similar window details to front
elevation.
INTERIOR: has staircase with cut string and turned balusters
(partly replaced) and panelled dado with fluted, Ionic
pilasters. Inner door to ground-floor room to left has
shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice
and broken pediment, also with modillion cornice. Similar
detail, but with pediment not broken, to outside of door and
to doors on 1st floor without pediments. One panelled room to
ground floor. Moulded, plaster cornices to principal rooms,
marbled fireplaces with shouldered architraves (some recently
stolen). 1st-floor landing has Venetian window with fluted,
attached Ionic columns and key pattern on soffit. Free-
standing Ionic column supports ceiling and acts as newel post.
Listing NGR: TQ3655880223
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