Ace Cinema
ACE CINEMA, ALEXANDRA AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079729
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Ace Cinema
- Statutory Address:
- ACE CINEMA, ALEXANDRA AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079729
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ace Cinema
- Statutory Address 1:
- ACE CINEMA, ALEXANDRA AVENUE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ACE CINEMA, RAYNERS LANE
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:
- ACE CINEMA, ALEXANDRA AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- ACE CINEMA, RAYNERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Harrow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13010 87371
Details
In the entry for
3/28 ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane
The Odeon Cinema
The address shall be amended to read ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane
Ace Cinema (formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)
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In the entry for:
3/28 ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane
Ace Cinema (formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)
The grade shall be amended to read: II* (star).
The description shall be amended to read;
Cinema 1936 by F E Bromige. Mass concrete and brick; flat asphalt roof. Tall triple- bowed concrete frontage with very wide central bowed projection: convex flanking concave metal windows rise to full-height within. Flat and bowed concrete canopy across front and above entrance doors. Rising upwards from the entrance canopy is a great concrete feature in the shape of a stylised elephant's trunk, with the curved "head" projecting in front of and above the bowed parapet. Interior: oval-shaped entrance foyer, with steps and railings to sunken tea-room in centre which has cigar-shaped coved plaster ceiling. Auditorium has concrete horizontal fluted gallery front and inward-curving walls; it is dominated by a fibrous plaster ceiling with deep coved ribs driving forward and downward to proscenium arch which is flanked by fluted side columns. A remarkably individual cinema design, and noted as the least altered late 1930s streamlined "art deco" cinema.
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ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane 1. 5016
TQ 18 NW 3/28 13.3.81 The Odeon Cinema The Odeon cinema
II
2. 1935. Architect F E Bromige. Tall frontage in concrete, triple bowed with the central bowed projection very wide with concave metal windows to full height within. From the entrance canopy upwards in a great concrete 'mullion' in the shape of a curved 'elephant's trunk, stylised, with the 'head' projecting in front and above the bowed parapet. To right and left of the centre are 2 full height metal bowed windows while embracing the Whole front is a flat, bowed concrete canopy protecting the entrance doors. The entrance foyer retains original decora- tion as does the auditorium with the wide proscenium arch, decorative ribbed ceiling, and concrete horizontal fluted gallery front.
Listing NGR: TQ1301087371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201975
- 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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