Description

TQ 3179 BOROUGH ROAD
636-1/4/10019 113-119
14-JUN-00

GV II

Terrace of houses and shops, mostly unoccupied at time of inspection. c.1820-6. General design also most certainly by William Mountague, Surveyor to the City of London. Gault brick with parapeted roofs and brick stacks. 3 storeys, basements and some attics. Each house is a 2-window range with arcade at first floor. These windows which have gauged brick arches are all blocked at present. Above are 4/4 sashes to No.113, 2/6 and 2/2 sashes to No.114, 8/8 sashes to No.115, boarded window and altered sash to No.116, 8/8 sashes to No.117, and 6/6 sashes to Nos.118 and 119. The ground floors are boarded except for doorway and panelled door at No.117, a shopfront of c.1820 at No. 118 and a doorway and panelled door and partly C20 shopfront at No. 119. Left end to Rotary Street has a 3-window range of blank windows with Portland stone cills, above boarded ground floor. Right end adjoins The Duke of Clarence Public House, No.132 London Road (qv).
INTERIOR: No. 117 alone inspected. Basement front room retains cast-iron range and fire surround, rear room a small open fireplace, copper and stone sink. Stick baluster staircase survives in part. 1st floor front room has dado rail and dado panelling, cupboards and double dividing doors. 2nd floor front retains marble fireplace with reeded surround, and panelled door. Small attic stair intact.
This terrace forms a significant group with the Duke of Clarence PH, No.132 London Road (adjacent and qv), the former Presbyterian Chapel (qv) and the St.George the Martyr Library (qv), both Borough road, the Obelisk, St. George's Circus (qv), and Nos.123-131 London Road (qv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669113

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)