Post Office

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE BOROUGH HIGH STREET 636-1/17/76 (East side) 27/09/72 No.19A Post Office

GV II

Formerly known as: Telephone Building at rear of No.4 LONDON BRIDGE STREET. Ward block of former St Thomas's Hospital, now post office. 1842-4. By Samuel Robinson and James Field. Portland stone, with channelled rustication to ground floor; slate roof. Late Georgian style, EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 1-bay elevation to Borough High Street: blind window set in revealed square-headed architrave to centre of rusticated ground-floor with cornice; 2 upper floors, with 18-pane sashes set in moulded architraves with bracketed cornice to 1st floor and eared architrave to 2nd floor, are articulated by giant order of Doric pilasters surmounted by dentilled entablature, with raised parapet to centre. Similar side elevations (south one mainly obscured) of 3 storeys and basement, 1;3;1;3;1 bay pattern with projecting outer and central bays articulated by Doric pilasters. Ground-floor windows in revealed architraves; upper windows with eared architraves and sill band to 2nd floor; tripartite windows with Doric piers to projecting central bay with parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built on part of the site of Court A of old St Thomas's Hospital as the southern of 2 large ward blocks (the other of which has gone), directly north of the former Church of St Thomas.

Listing NGR: TQ3271980209