30 Borough High Street

Early C19, re-fronted in the mid-C19 in Italianate style. The C20 shopfront is not of special interest.

MATERIALS: stock brick in Flemish bond, with stuccoed dressings on the east side only. Hipped slate roof overlaid with bitumen, with end brick chimneystacks.

PLAN: a three-bay frontage with commercial premises on the ground floor and separate residential accommodation on the upper floors, comprising two or three rooms on each floor accessed by a full-height staircase at the south-west end.

EXTERIOR: the east or entrance front has stuccoed bands between floors and the ground floor has a mid-C19 moulded fascia and north side entrance with pilasters, divided rectangular fanlight and double door with three fielded panels on each side. The shop front is of later C20 date. The first and second floors each have three sash windows with six-over-six panes with horns, and stuccoed architraves. The first floor windows are taller and additionally have moulded cornices and window cills. The third floor has smaller three-over-three sash windows. The north side has one early C19 multi-pane sash window on each of the upper floors lighting the staircase; that to the ground floor has been blocked. The south side adjoins no. 32 and is not visible. The west side is mainly obscured by 1B Southwark Street but there is a three-over-three sash window on the third floor.

INTERIOR: the ground floor shop has no visible original fittings. The doorcase on the north side of the east front leads into a narrow passage with a geometrical full-height early C19 painted wooden staircase. This has a mahogany handrail, stick balusters with curved tread ends and a cast-iron partly twisted columnar newel post. Adjoining is an elliptical arch supported on brackets.

The first floor, originally probably interlinking reception rooms, has a south-west corridor with a series of doorcases with four-panelled doors, and cornices decorated with three rosettes. The north-eastern room has a boxed in fireplace, a cornice and dado rail.The larger south-east room has a wooden fireplace with pilasters and cast-iron basket fire grate with rosettes, a moulded dado rail and a cornice, probably of anthemions, palmettes and ovolo moulding. The windows retain folding shutters.

The second-floor north-east room has a wooden fireplace with paterae and reeded pilasters. The larger south-east room, probably the principal bedroom, has a fireplace with pilasters and a cast iron basket fire grate. A half-glazed door with marginal glazing leads to a smaller south-west room which has a smaller wooden fireplace with paterae and reeded pilasters. The windows retain folding shutters.

The third floor north-east room has a four-panelled door with a moulded architrave. The smaller south-east room retains a three-over-three pane sash window without horns. A very narrow later staircase gives access on to the roof.