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Latitude: 51.501 / 51°30'3"N
Longitude: -0.0541 / 0°3'14"W
OS Eastings: 535164
OS Northings: 179798
OS Grid: TQ351797
Mapcode National: GBR JB.31X
Mapcode Global: VHGR1.0JSQ
Plus Code: 9C3XGW2W+99
Entry Name: 70, St Marychurch Street
Listing Date: 6 December 1949
Last Amended: 17 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385864
English Heritage Legacy ID: 471283
ID on this website: 101385864
Location: Rotherhithe, Southwark, London, SE16
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Rotherhithe
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Rotherhithe St Mary with All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: House Building Former school building
SOUTHWARK
TQ3579 ST MARYCHURCH STREET
636-1/6/727 (South side)
06/12/49 No.70
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MARY CHURCH STREET
(South side)
No.70
Peter Hill's School)
GV II
House, later a school, now an office. c1700. Red brick with
stone dressings, parapet with stone coping.
3 storeys and 3 bays. Front with stone quoins and plinth has
6-panel door with decorative fanlight to right, set into
timber doorcase with panelled reveals, sunk panelled pilaster
jambs supporting entablature with cornice, projecting
door-hood long since removed. 1st-floor centre window has
stone plaque beneath flanked by scroll corbels supporting
figures of boy and girl in period costume of c1700.
Ground-floor windows have brick aprons, others brick panels
below. Flat, gauged-brick arches to ground- and 1st-floor
windows; cambered, gauged-brick arches with keystones to
2nd-floor windows. All are sash windows with glazing bars in
flush frames. Blank, brown brick return to right. Rear
elevation rebuilt.
INTERIOR: retains original panelling and staircase with
barleysugar balusters and carved brackets.
The plaque indicates that the free school founded in 1613 and
instituted in 1742 moved here in 1797.
Listing NGR: TQ3516479798
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