177, Streatham High Road

This is a late 19th-century shop with accommodation above, part of a terrace of three buildings on Streatham High Road. The shopfront and interior date from around 1900 and were originally for David Greig, a grocer.

The exterior is of stock brick with red brick and stuccoed dressings, topped with a pantiled roof. A ribbed yellow brick chimneystack has red brick dressings. The front has three storeys. A pedimented dormer window features 20th-century aluminium sashes within Caernarvon arches, flanked by stuccoed cornices and brackets. The second floor has two sashes similarly treated, breaking through a red brick dogtooth cornice with metal flowerguards. The first floor has a three-light canted bay, now with 20th-century aluminium windows, supported by brick pilasters with floriated capitals. The ground floor retains the original shopfront with granite pilasters, decorated stone capitals and brackets, granite stall risers, plinth, and a hardwood shopfront including a vertically sliding box sash window and a door.

The shop interior, dating from around 1900, retains original fittings, including a marble display counter on the left side. Notable features include high-quality original tilework with a frieze of large thistles and decorative framed panels. The lower part of the tiling on the right-hand side wall is now missing. The walls also retain original meathooks, and the left side retains two marble shelves. The floor is laid with black and white mosaic flooring decorated with large thistles and a Greek key border. At the rear of the shop is an accounts kiosk set into the rear wall, lined with highly glazed dark brown tiles. The payment counter is framed by glazed panels featuring the David Greig entwined initials, bevelled mirrors, and original panelled mahogany doors, one leading to a cold store. A substantial section of original marble counter top with decorated glazed brown and cream tiling remains on the left side.

The building is included on the list for its original shopfront and shop interior.