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Listings report, Spring 2003
Added to the list:
Oaklands
College, Herts CC, 1958-60, II
Blocks A – F and L spot-listed at Grade II. Designed
by the most progressive practice in the country at the
time, the council’s Architects’ Department
pioneered a system for building using a 2’8”
modular planning grid, resulting in a system that was
flexible, elegant and economical.
Supported by the Society:
East Finchley
Library, London, Percival T Harrison, 1938
A good and near intact civic building. A proposed new
library would see this converted into residential.
21 Morden
Road, Blackheath, W Greaves, 1965-6, Garden designed
by Ivor Cunningham
The house was built for Leslie Bilsby, the individual
behind the famous SPAN developments. Threatened with
demolition.
Duchess
Theatre, Catherine St, Westminster, Ewen Barr, 1928-9
One of the few remaining unlisted theatres in London’s
West End. The intimate and spare interior reflected
a period of preference for drawing-room dramas and small
ensemble playing.
Turned down:
Birmingham
Central Library, J Madin and Partners, 1972
Although recommended by EH, DCMS said, ‘as a whole
it’s striking, but little of great interest or
quality in the way the building is put together, and
therefore it doesn’t fulfill PPG15 criteria for
the listing of post-war buildings’.
Colston
House, Bristol, Whinney, Son and Austen Hall, 1934
Thought by DCMS to be too altered and that there were
other better listed examples of this building type.
Proposed:
St Mary
Magdalene, Peckham, Potter and Hare, 1961-62
Light and transparent church. Roof consists of four
large glazed gables, which makes it an interesting feature.
Threat of demolition.
Pitmaston, Holland W Hobbiss,
1930-31
A witty, eclectic mix of classical styles make this
an interesting building. It is also the only office
building by Hobbiss to survive. A current application
will redevelop the building into housing, and build
in its grounds.
Brockwell
Lido, LCC, 1937
Simple and remarkably intact lido in very good condition.
Possible extension/demolition.
New Bodleian
Library, Oxford, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1937-40
Scott overcame a constraining brief (eg difficult site
and height restrictions) to produce a much larger building
than appears: half of it is underground.
Former
Teaching Training Campus, Walsall, Sheperd Robson
A purpose-built group consisting of a teaching block
on pilotis, surrounded by u-shaped student accommodation
with ‘beton-brut’ (exposed concrete) and good
functional planning. The buildings are threatened with
demolition, a car park being proposed for the site.
Jenkins
Former Garage and Car Showroom, Wallingford, Hancock
Associates, 1961-62
Open plan glass box with Mies van der Rohe character:
exposed, riveted steel frame. Potentially threatened
by a supermarket development.
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