HOW TO MODEL BRIDGE HOUSE
Grahame Hedges continues his mission to recreate a range of London structures in ‘N’ gauge, focusing on a listed building on Borough High Street.
Bridge House is a Grade II‐listed building located at 4 Borough High Street, close to the south end of London Bridge. It was built in 1834 on two levels, with a three-bay frontage on the High Street upper level and a greater depth behind and down to a lower level where Tooley Street passes under the High Street. The building it adjoins is ‘Bank Chambers’, also Grade II‐listed, which was National Westminster’s first bank and is now a Fuller’s pub called the ‘Barrow Boy and Banker’ at street level.
‘Bridge House’ is faced with Portland stone, has a curved lead roof with a further roof extension above, and applied columns with ionic capitals flanking the centre window bay. The building was originally one of the first grand railway hotels in London, serving London Bridge Station which is almost opposite. In more recent years the former excellent period interiors have been gutted and re-fitted as modern offices and the street‐level frontage converted into a commercial retail premises.