6, 8 And 10, Borough High Street

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE BOROUGH HIGH STREET 636-1/17/74 (West side) 13/05/71 Nos.6, 8 AND 10 (Formerly Listed as: BOROUGH HIGH STREET Nos.6-10 (Westminster Bank))

GV II

Commercial premises, now bank. Early-mid C19. Stucco with roof obscured behind blocking course. Italianate palazzo style with rounded angle of 1 bay to left return. Main elevation of 4 storeys and basement, 9 bays; return of 4 storeys with 2 basement floors below (upper one rusticated), 3 bays. Main elevation: plinth to street with semi-sunk basement windows. Ground floor has frieze and cornice held by pilasters, with paterae in necking and panelled bases at basement level, with C20 windows (end one now a door) between. Doorway with break-front cornice on heavy, scrolled brackets, with segmental pediment over. 1st-floor sash windows have architraves, with pulvinated frieze and vermiculated keystone, cornice and pediment; balustrades at window bases, the rails continuous with a string. 2nd-floor sash windows have architraves, frieze and cornice with bracketed sills and sill string. 3rd floor segment-headed sash windows have architraves with keystones linked by stringcourse, bracketed sills and sill string. Frieze and cornice above with dentils and modillions. Fenestration to rounded corner and return treated similarly. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3274480318