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Former New People’s Place, Mile End Road, London

Grade II: clad in buff-coloured brick with a grey granite plinth and reconstructed Portland Stone.  Built in 1936-7 by Campbell, Jones, Sons and Smithers, with later alterations, the building has five panels by Eric Gill on the Mile End Road facade depicting drama, music, fellowship, dance and sport.

Former Poplar Town Hall, Bow Road, London

Grade II: built by Culpin & Son, 1937-8.  Five storeys, steel framed with reinforced concrete walls faced with bands of Portland stone between long rows of horizontal windows.  Bas relief panels and mosaic canopy by David Evans.  Later alterations including an attic storey which is not of special interest. 

Spicer Homes, Sittingbourne, Kent

Grade II: Former almshouses, now houses.  Built in 1930 by architect John P Bishop and builders John P Bishop and Sons.  Neo-vernacular C17 style with arts and crafts influences.

Chelsea Bridge, London

Grade II: Suspension bridge of 1934-7 by LCC Engineers.  The bridge has granite clad piers and embellished with five sets of lamp posts decorated with golden galleons.

Lambeth Bridge, London

Grade II: Built 1929-32 by Sir George Humpheys with Sir Reiginald Blomfield and George Topham Forrest, the bridge is a five span steel arch structure on granite-faced reinforced concrete piers. 

3a Ellers Road, Doncaster

Grade II: Private house by Peter Aldington of Aldington and Craig.  Built in 1967-8, this single storey detached house on a U-shaped plan has walls of untreated concrete blockwork.  Internally the walls are painted white and ceilings are of varnished softwood boarding. 

Greybrook House, 28 Brook Street, London, W1

Grade II: Built as a showroom with practice rooms and offices above for Bechstein’s, the piano manufacturer, in 1929 by Sir John Burnet & Partners.  A six storey, steel framed building with concrete floor plates, and brown stock brick walls clad in Portland stone. 

368/370 Oxford Street, London W1

Grade II: Shop with a 1939 art deco style facade in white faience to an otherwise Edwardian building.

Commercial Block at Rolls Royce site, Derby

Grade II: Factory offices of 1912 by R Weston & Son.  A steel framed structure behind red brick terracotta and Portland stone.  The entrance was designed in a streamlined classical style 1938 by Arthur Eaton & Son.

Broxbourne Railway Station, Broxbourne, Herts

Grade II: by HH Powell of BR Eastern Region Architects’ Department, 1959-61.  Reinforced concrete framed with exposed floor and roof slobs and stock brick infill, with purple brick cladding to lift towers.

Hackney and East London Synagogue

Grade II: 1897 by Delissa Joseph and 1936 by Cecil J Eprile.  Well crafted, stylish Art Deco central bimah and matching pulpit.

Hangar, Heston Air Park, Hounslow, London

Grade II: Designed in 1929 with an extension in 1935 in art deco style.  This was the first all concrete hangar built in Britain.

Former Airship shed, St Mary Hoo, Kent

Grade II: World War I date but moved to its current location in 1920.  One of very few surviving WW1 airship hangars.  Timber frame with corrugated metal cladding.

World War II Anti-Tank Obstacles, Isle of Grain, Kent

Grade II: Concrete obstacles of pimple, cube and caltrop form, circa 1940.

Antenna No 3 at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Cornwall

Grade II: Constructed in 1972, the reinforced concrete tapered ‘windmill’ shaped tower is unique.

Several War Memorials and a K6 telephone box

War Memorials in Bergh Apton, Norfolk; Shalford, Surrey; Clayton, South Yorkshire; Wimbourne Minster, Dorset,  two in Weymouth, Dorset and a K6 telephone box in Sydenham Damerel, Devon were all Grade II listed.

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