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St Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, New Change, The City, London; Architects’ Co-Partnership, Leo de Syllas, 1962-7, Grade II*

With the threat of insensitive window replacements we put forward this excellent school for listing at Grade II in July last year (see Newsletter Autumn 2006 p5 for the casework report on this). We were very positively surprised when the qualities and significance of the building were recognized with a Grade II* listing in January.

Former Gas Showroom, 70-72 Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Shepway, Kent; JL Seaton-Dahl FRIBA, 1938, Grade II

The building's exterior of brick, stone and polished granite has been little altered by anything, except the weather. Its Moderne massing was praised but it was the impressive deco interior that most impressed the inspectors. The buildings grand, ovoid staircase, lit by ‘Lalique’ glass panels decorated with marine themes was considered to be ‘extremely rare’.

Garden Ground, 193 Bulford Road, Durrington, Salisbury, Wiltshire; Robert Townsend, 1949-1953, Grade II

Listed for being one of the most complete examples of a British interpretation of a Usonian House built on Wright’s principles. It was also noted that the house was built to a very high standard, despite the constraints on materials at the time of construction.

County Hall, Threadneedle Street/Duke Street, Chelmsford, Essex; F Whitmore, 1909, J Stuart with Vincent Harris, 1929-38, H Conolly, 1959-65, Alan Willis, 1984-8, Grade II

Listed for external architectural quality and the quality of the interior fixtures and fittings. Attention was also paid to the importance of the murals by Gill, Lawrence, Thompson and Fleetwood-Walker. EH described them as particularly significant for the development of c20 mural painting generally

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