Hanover House

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 BOROUGH ROAD 636-1/5/107 (North side) 27/09/72 Nos.49-60 (Consecutive) Hanover House (Formerly Listed as: BOROUGH ROAD (North side) Nos.49-60 (Consecutive))

GV II

Factory, now offices. c1889. For Day and Martin, blacking manufacturers. Yellow brick with stucco dressings, curved corrugated-iron roof obscured. EXTERIOR: unified Classical composition, 4 storeys, basement and full attic to centre. Projecting centre 5-bay and end 1-bay sections, articulated above ground floor by flat, giant pilasters with decorative capitals supporting entablature with frieze and cornice; balustraded parapet over, except for central 3-bay section which projects farther, with pediment over 4 fluted, giant, modified Ionic columns. Above this section is attic storey with pilasters and central segmental pediment with acroteria. Banded rusticated stucco to ground-floor with cornice. Openings in main features round- or segmental-arched with voussoirs, except those of central feature outer bays, which have shouldered, battered architraves and pediments. Wide, flat-headed windows in intermediate sections have pilasters and entablature. Plain 1st-floor windows under recessed stucco panels. 2nd-floor windows are round-headed with stucco archivolts (except for those in end sections and outer bays of central section, which are square-headed with architraves, console bracketed cornices and pediments). Gauged, flat brick arches to 3rd-floor windows with bracketed stucco sills. All 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3203979534