Odeon Cinema
Odeon Cinema, Dickson Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225407
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address:
- Odeon Cinema, Dickson Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225407
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address 1:
- Odeon Cinema, Dickson Road
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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:
- Odeon Cinema, Dickson Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 30885 36639
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 December 2024 to amend the architect's name and text reformated to display correctly on NHLE.
SD 33 NW
44-/2/10001
BLACKPOOL
DICKSON ROAD (east side)
Odeon Cinema
II
Cinema of 1938-9 by Arthur J Price and William Calder Robson of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brick, with white and green faience to front and black faience to lower part of left side elevation. Roof not seen. Rectangular double-height plan with corner tower.
Auditorium originally for 1,800 seats in stalls and single circle, with foyers on both levels; subdivided in 1975 to form two 200-seat mini-cinemas and projection box under circle. The main auditorium comprises the original circle, front stalls, proscenium, stage and surrounds.
Main facade a series of planes etched with narrow bands, centred on five lancets with metal casements under ODEON sign. Cornice band striped in green faience. Square corner tower set back to right side, also faience-clad, fluted at top under ODEON signs to each face. Original canopy over ground floor. Side elevation of banded brick and tile, stepped down to rear. Ground floor clad in black faience under original queue canopy running the full length of the facade and now a rare feature on a cinema.
Auditorium has stage but no fly tower. Proscenium with fluted, streamlined surround, flanked by decorative screens masking ventilation chambers. Ceiling with moulded cyma decoration ascends in six steps from the anteproscenium screen, incorporating two bands of decorative vents and service ducts to pairs of pendant lights. Rear projection box now disused. Original pendant wall-lights, six to either side. Dado panelling and veneered barriers, moulded circle front. Original doors with tiny viewing panes under chrome bars. The front of the stalls with original exit doors but now unseated. Circle foyer retains some original seating but has been repanelled and converted to a bar.
Included as a remarkably complete surviving Odeon cinema, with many original features now rare elsewhere.
Sources: Rosemary Clegg, Odeon, 1985. The Ideal Kinema, 22 June 1939
Listing NGR: SD3088536639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421772
- 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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