THE EMPIRE BUILDING

THE EMPIRE BUILDING, ROYAL VICTORIA COUNTRY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031516
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: THE EMPIRE BUILDING
Statutory Address:: THE EMPIRE BUILDING, ROYAL VICTORIA COUNTRY PARK

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Date:: 2005-07-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031516
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1997
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: THE EMPIRE BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: THE EMPIRE BUILDING, ROYAL VICTORIA COUNTRY PARK

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:: THE EMPIRE BUILDING, ROYAL VICTORIA COUNTRY PARK

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Eastleigh (District Authority)
Parish:: Hound
National Grid Reference:: SU4637907891

Details

SU 40 NE 1009/8/10007 28.10.97

HOUND ROYAL VICTORIA COUNTRY PARK The Empire Building

II

YMCA social centre. 1939-40, by Kenneth J. Lindy, for the YMCA. Timber-frame, clad in weatherboarding and cedar shingles. Cedar shingle roofs with gabled and hipped ends. Concrete brick stacks. PLAN: T -shaped on plan with hall in main range, billiard and quiet room in east cross-wing and a stair tower in each of the two angles. EXTERIOR: Single storey hall and 2-storey cross-wing. The main hall range has aisle with glazed doors and clerestory above, the lean-to roof continued and integrated into a lower roof on the left. Gable end of 2-storey cross-wing on right with stair tower in the angle with tall window, hipped roof and lean-to porch. Two small louvred ventilators on ridge of main roof and stack with set-offs at gable end of lower roof on left [W]. On right [E] side of cross-wing a hipped roof projection with a stack rising up the front. At rear [N] another stair tower in the angle and flat roof outshut to main range. Casement windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: The frame is constructed on Canadian principles, without mortice and tenon joints and braced with diagonal planking. Used in the construction and decoration is a great variety of timbers from all over the Empire. The hall's dado, radiators, piers, the brick chimney breast flanks and the stage are lined in various timber planks, some with ebony fillets. The billiard room is similarly treated and the Quiet Room has a dado made of a hundred different timber planks. The timber was donated by 79 members of the Timber Trade Federation. The architect painted a large map of the British Empire showing the source of the timbers used. SOURCE: Wood [Timber Trade journal] , July and November , 1940.

Listing NGR: SU4637907891

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Legacy System:: LBS

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'Wood' in Wood - July and November 1940, (1940)

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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.