Office Building at Pitstone Cement Works
OFFICE BUILDING AT PITSTONE CEMENT WORKS, MARSWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233453
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Office Building at Pitstone Cement Works
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICE BUILDING AT PITSTONE CEMENT WORKS, MARSWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233453
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Office Building at Pitstone Cement Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFICE BUILDING AT PITSTONE CEMENT WORKS, MARSWORTH 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:
- OFFICE BUILDING AT PITSTONE CEMENT WORKS, MARSWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93255 15400
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/01/2013
SP 91 NW
4/10000
PITSTONE
MARSWORTH ROAD
Office Building at Pitstone Cement Works
(Formerly listed under MARSWORTHY ROAD)
II
Office. 1937. Peter Lind,contractor, for F.L.Smidth.
Reinforced concrete frame with coarse pebble-aggregate, now
painted white; flat asphalt concrete roof.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with central entrance hall containing
staircase, and with axial corridors on each floor to offices.
International Modern style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. 6-bay concrete frame, the
projecting piers supporting floors and flat roof, the first
floor and roof cantilevered out as deeply projecting canopies
around the whole building, interrupted only at the back [west]
where there is a large full-height wall of glass bricks in the
wider central bay lighting the hall. The ground floor over the
low basement windows also projects, but not so much. The bays
between the piers are taken up by large metal-frame windows;
the entrance, set back in the centre bay on the east front, is
approached by a later flight of stairs; the stairs on the
south end are also later.
INTERIOR: Large 2-storey central hall has a fine concrete
staircase, its sinuosly curved solid balustrades tubular
handrails coiled around cylindrical newels as spirals; the
staircase rises from the basement to the landing balcony
overlooking the hall. The glass brick wall lighting the hall
has what are reputedly the original cacti growing in front of
it . The internal partitions are glazed metal frames.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, Pevsner and Williamson.
Listing NGR: SP9325515400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408950
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960)
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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