SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT

SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070245
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT
Statutory Address:: SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070245
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT
Statutory Address 1:: SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SWEDISH DANCE THEATRE TO NORTH WEST OF ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dover (District Authority)
Parish:: Nonington
National Grid Reference:: TR 26343 52712

Details

NONINGTON ST.ALBANS COURT TR 25 SE 3/164 Swedish Dance Theatre to N.W. of St.Albans 11.6.86 Court GV II Gymnasium. 1938. Joyce Adburgham for the English Gymnastic Society. Timber building of white deal with internal wall boardlining; external facing of Western Red Cedar weather boarding, ship lap and logsiding on diagonal sheathing of Swedish red pine. Internally, Lamella roof of British Columbia pine, exposed against a field of tongued and grooved roofboards, originally painted blue. Externally 7 bay N.W. and S.E. side elevations with four light window strips with small panes set in the 5 inner bays; triangular buttresses faced with diagonal boarding and below a deep cornice comprising 7 bands of horizontal boarding; timber projection along N.W. elvation. Flat roofed single storey horizontally boarded kitchen and changing room wing at N.E. end with flat roofed vertically boarded gallery wing set back above. Wide shaped end gable of horizontal boarding .S.W gable with canted bay with 8 narrow window strips rising to eaves level and with horizontally boarded cornice strip above. Interior; S.W. canted bay originally furnished with movable stage. N.E. spectator gallery with recent stage below. Changing rooms retain ceiling panels faced with lozenge shaped boarding. (See The Architect and Building News, 12.8.38, see also A.Sutton,Nonington, 1975

Listing NGR: TR2630052400

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 178025
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sutton, A, Nonington, (1975)
'The Architect and Building News' in 12 August, (1938)

Legal

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