Surrey Dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Dispensary. 2 related planning applications.

Surrey Dispensary

WRENN ID
old-rood-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Country
England
Type
Dispensary
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 FALMOUTH ROAD 636-1/5/338 (North West side) Surrey Dispensary

II

Dispensary. c1840. Stucco, scored to imitate banded rustication and painted. Single storey. Segmental-arched door to left with a narrow round-arched light to the side; 3 round-arched windows to the right, before rebated front wall, which angles back to form join with No.42 Trinity Street (qv), and then 3 more round-arched openings. Parapet over entrance with inscription giving the date of the foundation of the Dispensary, in C20 lettering. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: founded in 1777, The Surrey Dispensary let premises in Union Street in 1787. According to an 1840 prospectus its aims were 'visitations' to 'lying-in women', the sick and injured. It was one of several such charities operating in Victorian Southwark and is thought to be the oldest in London.

Listing NGR: TQ3260579384

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