View of Calvert's Buildings
View of Calvert's Buildings
Record No
115909
Title
View of Calvert's Buildings
Description
View of Calvert's Buildings, Borough High Street, Southwark. Attached to the back of number 50 Borough High Street on the right and along a passageway at the side of number 52. Reputed to be built in 1542, the timber-framed two-storey rendered building has an asymmetrical steeply pitched roof. The ground floor is almost completely glazed, with an overhanging first storey. Originally The Goat Inn public house, later called The Brew House, Calvert's Buildings takes its name from Felix Calvert, brewer, who occupied the site from 1786 to 1794. The building is Grade II listed, number 1378350. At the end of the passageway, through wrought-iron gates, Wigan & Co Hop Warehouses is visible with its frontage on Southwark Street. Wigan's were the largest hop merchants in the nineteenth century, and when the Hop Planters’ Joint Stock Company went into liquidation in 1868 they took over their premises at 15 Southwark Street and extended it towards the Charing Cross railway viaduct. The company was lead by Sir Frederick Wigan. He was Honorary Treasurer of St Saviour's Church when it was being recast as Southwark Cathedral at the beginning of the twentieth century, and was a major donor to the project. The warehouse has been demolished and the site is under redevelopment.
Date of execution
1966
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_66_4791
London picture map location
Exact
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