Hibernia Chambers

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE BOROUGH HIGH STREET 636-1/17/72 (West side) 27/04/70 No.2 Hibernia Chambers

GV II

Formerly known as: Hibernia Chambers LONDON BRIDGE. Commercial chambers. 1850. By William Cubitt. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with substantial basement plinth and 8 bays to Borough High Street; 2 main storeys with lower-level basement storey and 6 bays to south return. Main elevation has each outer bay flanked by giant pilasters on 2 planes supporting heavy entablature with panelled frieze and modillion cornice with balustraded parapet above. Each outer bay has entrance opening in stone architrave, treated as ground-floor windows but with segmental pediment above (right one is now a window). Ground-floor sash windows with glazing bars have architraves, friezes and cornices on console brackets. 1st-floor sash windows with glazing bars have shouldered architraves. South return treated similarly except that there are pilasters between all windows and an arcaded basement storey of banded rustication. INTERIOR: not inspected. Until reconstructed in 1976, this area below Borough High Street level was warehouses. The London Provision Exchange was established at Hibernia Chambers at the beginning of the C20.

Listing NGR: TQ3274580387