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

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