Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3379 WESTON STREET
636-1/5/859 (East side)
23/02/95 London Leather, Hide and Wool
Exchange

GV II

Includes: Nos.15 AND 17 The Jugglers Arms Public House
LEATHERMARKET STREET.
Exchange, offices and public house. 1878. By George Elkington
and Sons. Brick in Flemish and mixed bonds with stone trim and
terracotta; roof parapeted.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 3-window range; return of 4-window
range with hoist bay at the centre; hoist crane at the top.
All openings flat-arched unless otherwise stated.
Segmental-arched entrance in centre of 3-window range
elevation, with doors, and lintel of authentic design. Flanked
by Atlant brackets supporting an entablature bearing an
inscription: LONDON LEATHER/ HIDE & WOOL EXCHANGE; rectangular
bay with convex metal roof above; to top floor in this range a
3-light, mullioned and transomed window topped by Diocletian
light, the whole breaking the bracketed cornice to terminate
in a pediment formed from raking cornice only. Between cornice
brackets are terracotta sunbursts.
Flanking window ranges are 2 light, those to 1st floor with
flush pediments; mullioned and transomed above. Corner turret
from 1st floor finishing in a drum with roundel rising above
parapet height. Window treatments repeated on the return. Sill
and lintel bands tie the various elements together across the
surface of the design.
Of particular note is the ground-floor window treatment: each
set under shallow round-arched recess, the tympana of which
filled with roundels carved in low relief and depicting
various aspects of the tanning process; five in all.
Incorporated into the return is the Jugglers Arms Public House
with front taking up 1st- and 2nd bays of the return.
Treatments repeated on rear, or east-facing elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms a group with the Leather Market, Weston Street (qv) to
the south; the warehouse ranges to the rear of Leather Market,
No.8A Leathermarket Yard (qv), complete this excellent C19
industrial grouping.

Listing NGR: TQ3303779674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665803

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