Listing Text

SOUTHWARK

TQ3179 WEST SQUARE
636-1/4/851 (West side)
27/09/72 Nos.6-19 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WEST SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.6-19 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 14 houses in unified composition. 1794. Yellow
brick with stucco dressings; parapet (stuccoed to end pairs of
houses) with dentil cornice (Nos 11 & 14-17 have lost
cornices); slate mansards with dormers to Nos 8 & 9.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 2 bays (3 openings to ground
floor) each. Slightly projecting pedimented central feature
(Nos 12 & 13) with flanking houses (Nos 11 & 14), and end
pairs of houses (Nos 6-7 & 18-19) also projecting. Steps up to
doors (some replaced by windows) in round-arched recesses with
stucco impost blocks continuous with break-front cornice
heads, keystones and plain fanlights. Nos 18 & 19 (which have
stuccoed ground floors), and No.6, have later door pieces with
stucco pilasters supporting entablature.
Central pedimented section has 1st-floor windows in
segmental-arched recesses with stucco string at spring; end
pairs and house each side of central section have 1st-floor
windows in round-arched recesses with similar string. All this
group have 1st-floor sill band. All other windows are sashes
with glazing bars and gauged, flat brick arches.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron hand and area railings.
The buildings in West Square form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3155679050