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Old Vic Annexe, The Cut, Lambeth, London; Lyons Israel Ellis, 1957-58, Grade II

Originally this was the workshop building for the Old Vic, and now serves as studios and offices for the National Theatre. Listed as an early example of New Brutalism, also being the only architect designed theatre workshops in Britain.

The Co-operative Emporium, Godwin Street, Bradford, Yorkshire; W A Johnson and J W Cooper, 1935, Grade II

Impressive modernist department store, modelled after Erich Mendelsohn’s designs on the continent, early for having escalators and an open plan with circulation at the edges of the building.

LMS School of Transport, Derby, Derbyshire; William H Hamlyn, 1938, Grade II

Built for the training of rail staff, with murals and reliefs depicting associated themes. Striped Neo-Georgian building with Scandinavian influences.

St George’s Church, Brinkley Road, Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire; Seeley and Paget, 1933, Grade II

Finally after more than two and a half years this building has been added to the statutory list. The small church in a Cambridgeshire hamlet is one of the earlier works of this distinguished partnership. It is contemporary with the better-known Eltham Palace extension and St Faith’s church in Lee on Solent. Not mentioned in Pevsner this pristine yet virtually unknown church was built in 1933. St George’s is in immaculate condition inside and out. It is a simple, almost barn-shaped structure built of thin red brick and flint with a hipped roof of red ceramic roof tiles.

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