The Hop Exchange

SOUTHWARK

TQ3280SE SOUTHWARK STREET 636-1/17/708 (North side) 13/02/70 No.24 The Hop Exchange (Formerly Listed as: SOUTHWARK STREET (North side) Central Buildings)

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Commercial premises built as hop and malt exchange with offices and showrooms. 1866, By RH Moore. Stuccoed with cast-iron columns. EXTERIOR: 6 internal storeys and basement, but 3 giant storeys and basement on front. 39 bays. Extended ground-floor order of modified Corinthian half-columns of cast-iron resting on basement plinths with service doors between. Grand off-centre entrance portico rising through 2 storeys, 3 segmental-arched openings with masks on keys, the central opening wider. Keys support cornice and pediment which has eagle at apex and relief scene of brewing trade in tympanum. Elaborate iron gates with decoration of hop plants in entrance openings. 1st-floor segment-arched windows have plate tracery, architraves resting on cornices of lower Corinthian order and keystones which support cornice. 2nd floor has round-arched windows with plate tracery between pilasters with impost capitals. Parapet above has recessed corbelled section above each arch. INTERIOR: has galleried court of 4 levels under sky-light. Cast-iron balconies to upper 3 floors with balustrades elaborately decorated with hop plant decoration and monograms. Top storey rebuilt at a reduced height, and original glass and iron roof to exchange hall replaced after fire of 1920.

Listing NGR: TQ3256380172