Grange Walk | |
Direction A: | West |
Terminus A: | Tower Bridge Road |
Direction B: | East |
Terminus B: | Neckinger |
Grange Walk is a historic road in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark, in south London. It runs between Tower Bridge Road in the west and Neckinger in the east.
Described as one of the prettiest roads in Bermondsey[1] it contains numerous historic buildings and has associations with the demolished Bermondsey Abbey, which is perhaps most famous for being the last residence of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, mother of the "Princes in the Tower" and Elizabeth of York.
Within the structure of the late 17th-century Grade II-listed houses numbered 5, 6 and 7 is part of one side of the late medieval stone gatehouse of Bermondsey Abbey. At number 7 is the Chamfered south jamb of the gateway with two wrought-iron gate-hooks projecting from the wall and a ‘Gatehouse’ sign. Numbers 5 to 11 form a group of historic houses and are found at the westernmost part of the road.
At number 67 is a Grade II*-listed double-fronted Queen Anne house dated circa 1700.[2] The road also contains the interesting Grange House, which sits at the end of a cobbled stone road surrounded by an unusual painted passageway. At the corner of Grigg's Place there is as a former girls' charity school of the 1830s, which still retains the words "Bermondsey United Charity School for Girls" inscribed in stone. The cobbled Bridewain Street towards the eastern end of the road used to lead to a dairy.[3]
Writing in 1873, author Edward Walton described Grange Walk (then known as Grange Road):
The far eastern section of Grange Walk is undergoing extensive redevelopment with the construction of a large residential and retail area,[4] which is on a site contiguous with the imposing listed Bermondsey Town Hall,[5] which is also being renovated and converted into flats.[6]