Bushey Studios
BUSHEY STUDIOS, MELBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173944
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bushey Studios
- Statutory Address:
- BUSHEY STUDIOS, MELBOURNE ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173944
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bushey Studios
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUSHEY STUDIOS, MELBOURNE ROAD
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:
- BUSHEY STUDIOS, MELBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13558 95099
Details
TQ 1395 BUSHEY MELBOURNE ROAD (Northwest side) Bushey
13/137 Bushey Studios 11.4.85 (Formerly listed as Cygnet Studios) - II
Film Studios. Core is mid C19 Methodist Chapel. Extended and converted to form a private theatre by Sir H.Herkomer c.1887. Further extended and adapted to use as a daylight film studio by Herkomer in 1912 to 1913. Colourwashed brick with glass and metal sheeting to upper daylight studio. Glass roof. 5 bays to main block. Entrance in lean-to addition. 12 light casements with iron glazing bars and segmental heads, buttress strips. Brick corner piers to upper glass house. Left gable end to High Street has a lower 1 storey wing attached, blind openings with gauged brick heads, a lower bay to road with small openings and deep eaves to a hipped slate roof. Right gable end has a slightly lower projecting wing. 2 round headed casements below an entrance to upper stage with steps up. Interior largely subdivided. Herkomer's daylight glass house is the earliest surviving film studio in England. (Pevsner 1977, Hertfordshire Countryside, No. 172, Aug. 1973).
Listing NGR: TQ1355895099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Hertfordshire Countryside in August, Vol. 172, (1973)
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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