Shop and house in Union Street
Shop and house in Union Street
Record No
116360
Title
Shop and house in Union Street
Description
Looking south from O'Meare Street at the front elevation of an early nineteenth-century building at 61 (174 prior to street renumbering in the 1860s) Union Street, Southwark. An arch at one side leads to a yard and buildings at the rear with the street number 59 (175). An artificial stone cornice and blocking course at roof level has pigeons perching thereupon. The shop front has double doors within a wood-panelled recess. The doorway and shop windows each have a fanlight of radiating bars. The shop windows have breeze-powered spinning ventilators in the centre of panes. A wood cornice extends the full width of the building between the ground and first floors on consoles at the top of shallow Corinthian unfluted pilasters. The archway has double wooden doors at the entrance with panelling and plain vertical wooden grilles, curved dips meeting at the centre, above which plain vertical planking with a horizontal top has been added to reduce the gap available for intrusion. To facilitate window cleaning a walkway grating projects across the spandrels below the second-floor sills as does a bar at lower sash level, and mortar-filled holes higher up in the wall are evidence of a missing bar. A cable bracket is in the top left corner. Iron gratings below the shop windows that had previously lit basement windows have been infilled with concrete. At the western end an ornamented hopper feeds a lead drainpipe which at ground-floor level is concealed behind the fascia and drains onto the pavement. A telephone cable fed underground from the adjacent footway jointing chamber is enclosed in steel conduit adjacent to the right-hand pilaster from pavement to the top of the shop window level and then loose up to the point of entry to the building. Buildings off the yard are visible through the arch, with a door giving rear access to number 57. The building was occupied by John Allsop, wholesale turner and brushmaker, from 1787 until the early 1880s, and then by Joseph Watson & Co., yeast manufacturers and bakers’ sundriesmen, until the 1940s and is Grade II listed, listing number 1386009.
Date of execution
1966
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_377_66_2934
London picture map location
Exact
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