Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE ST THOMAS STREET
636-1/17/734 (North side)
06/12/49 No.9
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST THOMAS'S STREET
(North side)
Chapter House Annexe, No.9)

GV II*

Treasurer's house of old St Thomas's Hospital, part becoming
the later Chapter House Annexe, now all offices. c1706. Brown
brick with red brick dressings, slate roof with dormers behind
brick parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic. 7 bays. Left-hand
section has wide, early C18 doorway with panelled Doric
pilasters and carved scroll brackets supporting enriched
cornice and broken segmental pediment. This originally formed
an entrance to a covered passageway leading to Edward Square,
part of the old hospital behind. Later door with fanlight and
multi-light margins.
To right, 2nd doorway with panelled pilasters, scroll brackets
and broken pediment. 1st- and 2nd-floor sash windows with
glazing bars in stucco-lined reveals with flat, gauged-brick
arches and rubbed red brick surrounds. Brick string courses
between floors.
Rear (north) elevation treated in same manner as that of
adjacent former Church of St Thomas, although levels do not
coincide. Flat, gauged-brick arches to sash windows with
glazing bars; Ionic pilasters in between rising through 2
storeys to modillion cornice.
INTERIOR: altered for office use but retains some good
features.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron area railings dated 1852.
Forms, together with rear to No.9A, one of the more important
survivals of Queen Anne architecture in London.
No.9 forms a group with No.9A (former St Thomas's Church and
later Chapter House) and Nos 11-15 (odd) (qv).
No.9 was listed 27.09.72.

Listing NGR: TQ3278080186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531424

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)