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Coventry Retail Market

GII: A market hall built in 1957 to designs by Coventry City Architects’ Department.  The market consists of a series of concrete arches joined by a ring beam, all left exposed, with brick infilling and a concrete roof. 

Sandhurst Block and Officers’ Mess and Stables at Boulon Barracks, Hipswell, N Yorks

GII: 1938 by the Designs Branch of the War Office, red brick, laid in stretcher bond with Portland stone dressings and Westmoreland slate roofs.

Officers’ Mess and Stables, Gaza Barracks, Hipswell, N Yorks.

GII: 1938, red brick in neo-Georgian style.

Administration Block at St Lukes’ Hosptial, Muswell Hill, London

GII: built 1928-30, designed by TA  Pole, FRIBA.  Built of red brick with stone dressings and a hipped tile roof.

Brockley Primary School, Old Bolsover, Derbyshire

GII: former Elementary School of red brick with Welsh slate and plain tile roof coverings, with attached railings, gate piers and gates.  1927 with later minor alterations and additions.  Designed by George Widdows, architect to Derbyshire’s Education Committee from 1904 and Chief Architect to Derbyshire County Council 1910-36.

Little Chapel, Rodborough, Glos.

GII: chapel with meeting room under, formerly a coach house and stables, built in 1836 and converted to a chapel in 1925 by Sidney Barnsley.  Extended in 1936 by Peter Waals, with stained glass by Henry Payne, Edward Payne and Whitefriars.

Sparsholt Manor and associated garden buildings and features, Sparsholt, Hants

GII: Country house, 1922-3, influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement and the Domestic Revival style.  Designed by Harry Inigo Triggs and Gerald Unsworth.  Red brick in Flemish bond, tile roofs, tile-hanging, leaded casements.

Springfield Junior School, Swadlincote, Derbyshire

GII: 1936 with late c20 alterations.  Designed by George Widdows in red brick with plain coverings to deep hipped roofs and roof dormers.

Bata Industrial Building No. 12, East Tilbury, Essex

GII: designed by FL Gahura and V Karfik for the Bata Shoe Company of Zlin in the International Modern Movement style.  A single storey building (1933), of welded steel columns and roof trusses with reinforced concrete walls and Crittall windows.

Victory House and Nelson House (Bata Industrial Buildings no 24 and 34), East Tilbury, Essex

GII: also by Gahura and Karfik and built between 1934 and 1938.  Both are five storey blocks with reinforced concrete frames and columns in modules of 6.15m on a system evolved by Gahura and builder/engineer Arnost Sehdel in 1927 for the Bata factory in Zlin.

The Pavilion, Dawlish, Devon

GII: small sports pavilion opened in 1935 by the Astlolant Company of Guildford.  Constructed of concrete with flat roof and metal framed windows. 

Lewisham Bridge Primary School, London

GII: Designed 1912 and built 1914 by the LCC Architects’ Dept.  Stock brick with mainly timber sash windows, hipped tiled roofs and brick chimney stacks in an Arts and Crafts style.

Catholic Church of Christ the King, Plymouth, Devon

GII: Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and constructed posthumously by his office in 1961-2.  Simplified gothic style with Italianate influences.

Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth Common, London

GII: built in phases between 1901 and 1936 by Young and Hall.  Red brick with stone dressings and tiled roofs.

No fewer than thirty one K2 or K6 telephone boxes in England have been listed at GII

This is a record number in any three month period thus far.

War memorials at Barnack, Cambs and Pendle, Lancs have been listed at GII

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