Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane

Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane, Golden Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021946
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane
Statutory Address:: Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane, Golden Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021946
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane
Statutory Address 1:: Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane, Golden Lane

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane, Golden Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32259 82129

Details

TQ 3282 SW 627-0/3/10167

GOLDEN LANE (east side) Stanley Cohen House, including canopies and retaining walls to Golden Lane

GV II Block of 32 flats. Design won in competition in 1952, built to revised designs 19545-6, with later infilling; competition winner Geoffry Powell, architects for built scheme Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Ove Arup and Partners, engineers.

Reinforced concrete frame, with pink brick basement and ground floor with some golden yellow opaque glass cladding facing garden, grey engineering brick to Golden Lane, shuttered concrete end walls, painted pick-hammered upper floors -originally black and white but now a uniform shade. Flat roofs. Screen wall canopy on painted concrete posts extends the length of Golden Lane to east, continues beyond block with later open ceramic screen also used to infill two openings under block and at northe~n end. Southern end broader, with later tiled back, incorporates three-dimensional map of the estate on wall. Stanley Cohen links Bowater House, Bayer House and Basterfleld House. Four storeys, the upper floor set back, the block kept low to allow a maximum of early morning light into the estate. Flats 1-5 reached via stairs at southern end of block. Nos. 6-12 and 25-32 reached off shared stair with Nos. 20-29 and 40-49 Bayer House, on south of entrance to estate. To north of this, smaller stair leads to flats 13-17, and similar stairs serve flats 18-22. At north end of block stair to flats 23-24, 25-32 reached off stairwell shared with Nos. 20-37 -and 40-57 Basterfield House. Eight one-room flats, eight two-room flats, fourteen three-room flats and two four-room flats. The smallest flats on ground and third floors, which have balconies with steel and mahogany handrails. Nos. 25-32 on top floor reached via access "gallery, the rest from stairs. All w1ndows have metal opening lights in timber surrounds. Stairs of concrete with open steel balustrades in open wells. The interiors of the flats not of special interest.

HISTORY AND ANALYSIS The development of the Golden Lane Estate is explained in the entry for Great Arthur House.

(City of London Corporation Record Office: Competition records 1951-2 and surviving records; The Builder: 29 February 1952: 324-8; The Builder: 7 March 1952: 371-81; Architects' Journal: 20 March 1952: 354, 358-62; Architectural Design: July 1953: 190-4; Architectural Design: September 1956: 294-8; Architectural Review: June 1957: 415-26; Architects' Journal: 27 June 1957: 947-8; The Builder: 15 November 1957: 850-6) .

Listing NGR: TQ3226482138

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 466570
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Builder' in 29 February, (1952), 324-8
'Architects Journal' in 20 March, (1952), 354.358-62
'Architectural Design' in September, (1956), 294-8
'The Builder' in 7 March, (1952), 371-81
'Architectural Design' in July, (1953), 190-4
'The Builder' in 15 November, (1957), 850-6
'Architectural Review' in June, (1957), 415-26
'Architects Journal' in 27 June, (1957), 947-8

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.