Licensed Victuallers Benevolent Institution (Caroline Gardens)

SOUTHWARK

TQ3477SE ASYLUM ROAD 636-1/40/17 (West side) 28/02/62 Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution (Caroline Gardens) Nos.1-100

GV II

Main block of Caroline Gardens, a complex of former almshouses. 1827-33. By Henry Rose. Stock brick with stucco cornice and plain blocking course. U-shaped range with lanes through at each corner and houses facing out both ways and at ends. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays each. Central chapel has hexastyle Ionic portico, entablature with dentil cornice and pediment over with "FOUNDED 1827" in tympanum either side of clock; 2-stage square classical cupola above. Projecting centre section under portico has angle pilasters and high, battered door with moulded architrave and console bracketed cornice. Set back side sections have entrances (now bricked up) with pilasters and entablature with dentil cornice. On the stylobate 2 large Coade stone torchieres. Rest of range has quoin pilasters and pilaster defining end 2 houses on each side, which slightly project. Double doors with oblong overlights. Gauged, cambered brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars. Stucco string course with brick string below above 1st floor. Rear elevation similar with central, slightly projecting 3 bays (chapel) slightly higher, with quoin pilasters and central door. Ends facing street of 5 bays with projecting central 3 bays under pediment over entablature supported on 4 giant pilasters between windows. Stucco architraves to door and windows, stuccoed plinth and 1st-floor sill band in this section. INTERIOR: chapel interior (destroyed in World War II) derelict at time of survey. Nos 1-100 Caroline Gardens form part of a huge complex consisting of double U-shaped ranges around central garden with wide court in between.

Listing NGR: TQ3476077375