Leather Market

Leather Market is a building located in Southwark, originally constructed in 1833 and now serving mixed commercial uses. The structure features a long front that is three storeys high and consists of 16 bays, with a central section of nine bays. The central section is distinguished by ten giant pilasters made of stone, which are capped with stone and rest on thick moulded stone bases. These pilasters support an architrave, frieze, modillion cornice, and a parapet that also has pilasters. The building is made of multi-coloured stock brick and has a stone cornice and a coped brick parapet on the central section, while the left section has a lower stone cornice and a brick parapet.

The ground floor has a high, projecting stone plinth and includes a four-bay left section that features a two-storey round-arched vehicle entrance. This entrance is adorned with vermiculate rusticated voussoirs and a plain keystone. The square-headed openings on the ground floor have stone surrounds, while the first-floor windows are framed with stone lintels that extend as a band across the outer sections. The second-floor windows have gauged, flat brick arches. The building has many sash windows with glazing bars, although not all of them match.

The interior has not been inspected. The rear elevation presents a good warehouse appearance, featuring a brick modillion cornice, large hatch ranks, and hoists. There are various ground-floor openings, with gauged-brick arches for the windows on the ground floor, flat arches on the first floor, and segmental arches on the second floor. The rear of the building forms one side of a courtyard of warehouse fronts, including No. 8A Leathermarket Yard, contributing to a cohesive group of 19th-century industrial buildings.