View of Borough High Street
View of Borough High Street
Record No
116058
Title
View of Borough High Street
Description
View of 38-52 Borough High Street, Southwark. Numbers 38-52 form a terrace which dates from the early part of the eighteenth century. All have ground floor shops of a later date, and are shuttered. Number 38 on the right is part of a three-storey terrace with attics built 1716-24, and altered in 1860-62. It is now offices and Grade II listed, number 1378347. Number 40 was refurbished in 1991 as offices and is Grade II listed, number 1378348. Number 42 is a three-storey building with a mansard roof and dormer window, and a shuttered shop front. In 1843 this building was occupied by Eagleton and Glover, Tailors; and is now an estate agents. Numbers 44-48 form a terrace of a narrow three-storey buildings with mansard roof and dormer windows. Number 44 has a sign above the shop front for YE OLDE COFFEE SHOP, and above the first floor: DINING ROOMS. These had been owned in 1921 by William Murray. Number 46 has painted signs for DELTA HOTEL AND RESTAURANT with lace curtains in the window. Number 48 has a shop sign for W.E.HILL BUILDERS AND DECORATORS, and above the first floor a sign for FRANK COGGER TRADE VALUER. These three buildings have been redeveloped and combined as one with an estate agents on the ground floor. Outside on the pavement are stacked crates, sacks and baskets, and this site is in close proximity to Borough Market. Numbers 50-52 form an early-eighteenth century three-storey building with attics. A sign over the shop front: LAURENCE LATTER and Sons who were Hop Factors. It is Grade II listed, number 1378349, and is now offices. An archway to a narrow passageway leads to Calvert's Buildings, reputed to be built in 1542, a timber-framed two-storey building. 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. It is Grade II listed, number 1378350.
Date of execution
1943
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
- Updated 2010 10 28
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_F1580
London picture map location
Exact
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