Troxy
TROXY, 490, COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0HX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065742
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Troxy
- Statutory Address:
- TROXY, 490, COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0HX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065742
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Troxy
- Statutory Address 1:
- TROXY, 490, COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0HX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TROXY, 490, COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0HX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35826 81129
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/05/2017
TQ 3581
16/6014
Commercial Road
No 490
Troxy
(Formerly listed as LONDON OPERA CENTRE (FORMER TROXY CINEMA) Commercial Road)
II
Former cinema with cafe, later converted as a costume and scene painting studio. c1931-33 by George Coles for cinema entrepreneurs Phil and Sid Hyams and Major A J Gale.
Cream faience tiles giving chanelled effect; yellow stock brick return. Art Deco style. Central two-storey opening with enriched architrave and distyle in antis pillars, having stylised capitals, rising from first floor level to support an enriched frieze. Pillars flank vertical glazing with delicately patterned strips and geometrically patterned head panels. Projecting canopy at first floor level above entrances, two with original doors (glazing altered) and one now blocked. To either side of main ground floor opening, entrances now altered above which panels for posters, each surmounded by a pilaster with original flag poles rising above geometrically patterned frieze, dentil cornice and blocking course. Double height foyer altered to include an inserted floor to form workshops; originally with a first floor cafe and balcony. Golden onyx stair with central cast iron balustrade and multi-coloured marble floor remain. Auditorium with rich Art Deco plaster work to walls, ceiling and proscenium; side walls include large panels of delicate ornamental grillwork and original lights. Large, enriched three-tier ceiling fitting providing illumination and air conditioning outlets. Original balcony. Stage retains revolving circles. Lift for Wurlitzer organ survives. The Troxy closed in 1960 and re-opened 1963 as a training school for Convent Garden Opera.
Listing NGR: TQ3582681129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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