Whitehall Cinema

WHITEHALL CINEMA, NEWLAND STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122578
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:
Whitehall Cinema
Statutory Address:
WHITEHALL CINEMA, NEWLAND STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122578
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:
Whitehall Cinema
Statutory Address 1:
WHITEHALL CINEMA, NEWLAND STREET

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHITEHALL CINEMA, NEWLAND STREET

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Witham
National Grid Reference:
TL 82228 14686

Details

1. 1841 NEWLAND STREET (North-West Side) Whitehall Cinema TL 8214 1/123 1.3.50.

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2. Originally a good C18 - early C19 gault brick house turned into a cinema in the C20 (now disused). The front block has a cinema entrance on the ground storey but the upper storeys retain the original features. The front is now painted brick with a parapet, stucco cornice and. pilasters which rise through the two upper storeys framing the window ranges. 5 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in plain reveals. At the north-east end there is a 2 storey addition of 2 window range with a C20 Cafe on the ground storey. 2 original Venetian windows are said to remain behind the Cinema boards on the ground storey.

Nos 2 to 12 (even), Stable to No 4, No 16 (Roslyn Home), Whitehall Cinema, Nos 22 to 26 (even), Wall to the former house "The Grove" and No 3 form a group.

Listing NGR: TL8222814686

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
113528
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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