55, Bermondsey Street

No. 55 Bermondsey Street is a late 19th-century tannery building in Southwark, designed in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of brick in English bond with stone and red brick dressings, featuring a black brick plinth and a parapeted roof. The building rises five storeys above a basement and has a seven-window range that is asymmetrically arranged around a large, segmental-arched carriageway located in the third and fourth window ranges.

A springing band of diaperwork connects the ground-floor openings and recesses, all of which are segmental-arched, except where noted. To the left, there is a cusped roundel set in a recess. The left party wall features a flat-arched entrance in a high recess, which was originally a loading bay, similar to the loading bay in the sixth-window range. The openings in these loading bays are flat-arched, while those in the first range are later insertions. The third and fourth window ranges are coupled, sharing a colonnette, and all original windows have keyed lintels, with those on the top floor intersecting the bracketed cornice. Sill bands with geometric patterns are present on the second through fourth floors. The lower related buildings at the rear yard are three storeys tall with segmental-arched windows and are arranged on a roughly L-shaped plan. The interior has not been inspected.