Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD
636-1/5/701 (West side)
27/09/72 No.94 (PART)
Winchester House and attached
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD
(West side)
No.94A
Winchester House)

II

Part of St Saviour's Workhouse, now part of Southwark Fire
Station and Fire Brigade Training Centre. 1777. By George
Gwilt the elder. Eastern wing (facing main road) aggrandized
and converted into 2 houses, early C19. Practice tower added
to rear c1880 by Alfred Mott (in connection with its later use
as a fire training centre).
MATERIALS: main elevation: brown brick with stucco details and
cornice with brick parapet, hipped slate roof with red tile
cresting.
PLAN: rectangular plan (with rear wing).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 11 bays. Central 3 bays
articulated by 4 giant stucco Ionic pilasters supporting
entablature and balustraded parapet above. Outer bays flanked
by sunk panelled pilasters supporting entablature and
balustraded parapets. Pair of modified Doric porches at 2nd
bay from each end. Tall ground-floor windows with stucco
architraves and cornices, that in right end bay with console
bracketed pediment. C20 1-storey projection at left end bay.
1st and 2nd floors have sash windows with glazing bars,
gauged, flat brick arches and stucco sills, those to central 3
bays with console bracketed cornices. Return elevation much
plainer.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: metal railings and brick piers of late
C19 enclosing forecourt.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the workhouse became a hat factory and
residence in the early C19, and in 1878, when the Metropolitan
Fire Brigade moved their headquarters here under Captain Shaw,
a training school. The building forms an important group with
the Gothic-style fire station built to its left in 1878 (qv).
A Gothic extension of 1883 by Robert Pearsall, which hid the
former workhouse building from the main road, was demolished
after the war.

Listing NGR: TQ3211179898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665676

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)