Telephone Exchange

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TQ 3875 14/271

GILMORE ROAD SE13 Telephone Exchange

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1909-1910 by Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925). Three storeys, four windows. Top storey appears to be a later addition in multicoloured stock brick with stone coped parapet and gauged brick arches to flush frame hinged windows with glazing bars. These rest on stone coping of original parapet. Two lower floors of multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings, ie gauged brick window arches, window jambs, panels of banding between lst and ground floor windows; and angles of building. Flat, stone pilasters within angles rest on stone-coped plinth and rise through moulded stone cornice and stone-coped red brick parapet to end in small capitals. Flush framed sash windows with glazing bars. One storey, one-bay left entrance extension banded in red brick. Seven steps, with stone coped and banded side wall, to five-panel door under gauged red brick arch. Similar three-bay rear extension without pilasters or cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ3872575166