Number 1 And Attached Railings

SOUTHWARK

TQ3180 STAMFORD STREET 636-1/1/744 (South side) No.1 and attached railings

GV II

Commercial building, now offices. c1870. Red brick with stone dressings, further colour added by black and white brick detail. High slate mansard roof. Corner block with canted entrance bay on the angle. EXTERIOR: 2-window ranges to both elevations. 3 storeys with dormers to mansard, over basement. Pedimented dormers: 2 to Stamford Street, one on the corner, and another to Blackfriars: a further straight-headed, 4-light dormer adjacent to the latter. These windows set behind decorative iron cresting which caps the strongly modelled bracketed eaves cornice. At 2nd-floor level the openings are all round-arched, with 2x2 sashes under polychromatic brick arches; there is a continuous arcade of 5 windows to Stamford Street; corner window with projecting balcony; 2 groups of 3 windows to Blackfriars. Broad sill band to 2nd-floor windows of patterned brickwork, punctuated at regular intervals by terracotta knobs set in square surrounds. Similar format to 1st-floor windows, this time arranged in 2 groups of 2-light windows, each with authentic 2x2 sashes; 3-light windows to Blackfriars. As before the window in the canted bay opens onto a balcony, here supported by the entrance porch. The ground floor is rusticated and decorated at cornice level with knobs of polished Peterhead granite. There are 3 tall rectangular windows to the Stamford Street and 4 to Blackfriars, with the main entrance sheltered by a rusticated porch. There is a subsidiary door to Stamford Street which appears to be of an authentic design, but the main double doors and all the glazing on this floor is of recent vintage. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine railings to Stamford Street basement area and attractive ironwork to the 1st-floor balcony. A handsome building designed to make the most of its prominent position looking toward Blackfriars Bridge. Forms a group with No.3 Stamford Street (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3162980375