Leather Market

SOUTHWARK

TQ3379 WESTON STREET 636-1/5/858 (East side) 27/09/72 Leather Market

GV II

Leather market, now mixed commercial uses. 1833, 3-bay section at right rebuilt more plainly after war. Multi-coloured stock brick with stone cornice and coped brick parapet to central section, lower stone cornice and brick parapet to left section. Long front of 3 storeys, 16 bays with 9-bay central section articulated with 10 giant, stone-capped pilasters on thick moulded stone bases, supporting architrave, frieze, modillion cornice and parapet with pilasters. High, projecting stone plinth to ground-floor with 4-bay left section containing 2-storey round-arched vehicle entrance with vermiculate rusticated voussoirs and plain keystone. Square-headed ground-floor openings have stone surrounds. 1st-floor windows have stone lintels, continuing as band across outer sections. 2nd-floor windows have gauged, flat brick arches. Many sash windows with glazing bars, not all matching. INTERIOR: not inspected. Good warehouse elevation to rear with brick modillion cornice, large hatch ranks and hoists. Various ground-floor openings; gauged-brick arches to windows, those at 1st floor flat, those at 2nd floor segmental. The rear forms one side of a courtyard of warehouse fronts, including No.8A Leathermarket Yard (qv), with which it forms a good group of C19 industrial buildings.

Listing NGR: TQ3301679643