Looking west at the front elevations of 25-29 Upper Ground (left to right, odds), Southwark. Number 25 Upper Ground was known as 25 Upper Ground Street until the 1930s, and as 78 Upper Ground Street until the 1920s. It is a shed faced and roofed with corrugated steel sheets. Numbers 27 and 29 (formerly 77 and 76 respectively) are addresses within a three-storey-plus-basement former house that was incorporated into the adjacent industrial premises at number 31 (formerly 75) that was for more than 50 years a fire engine factory, but subsequently subdivided for multiple commercial occupancy. Number 29 is the address of the original front door which boasts a large architrave with elaborate consoles supporting a flat doorhood and with rounded quarter-columns within the palisters. The wall beneath the original ground-floor window to the left of the front door has been cut through to create another doorway, the original outer sash reused as the transom light. Despite a doorbell push being provided on the door, signwriting directs visitors to the Renu Plating Company to an entrance under the archway at number 31, and only letters are to be inserted in the letterbox. At least three layers of signage on the quarter-column are, due to weathering, faintly discernible, variously showing the street number as 29 and 31 but all relating to Rudd & Co, discount school uniform outfitters. Three first-floor windows are endowed with balconettes. One of the second-floor windows is blind. The bricks of the side wall are of a different size to those of the front implying that when constructed this building incorporated the side wall of another at number 25 as the party wall. The entire block between Upper Ground, Rennie Street, Stamford Street, and Hatfields was subsequently redeveloped.
