The Stephen Joseph Theatre

The Stephen Joseph Theatre including 4-12, Northway , Scarborough, YO11 1JL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243674
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: The Stephen Joseph Theatre
Statutory Address:: The Stephen Joseph Theatre including 4-12, Northway , Scarborough, YO11 1JL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243674
Date first listed:: 08-Jun-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: The Stephen Joseph Theatre
Statutory Address 1:: The Stephen Joseph Theatre including 4-12, Northway , Scarborough, YO11 1JL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Stephen Joseph Theatre including 4-12, Northway , Scarborough, YO11 1JL

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 03894 88369

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TA 0388 3/401

WESTBOROUGH The Stephen Joseph Theatre

(Formerly listed as Odeon Cinema)

II

Incorporates Nos 4-12 even, Northway. Cinema with cafe and shops. 1936 by J Cecil Clavering and Robert Bullivant of Harry Weedon's Birmingham practice, for Oscar Deutsch, owner of the Odeon chain. Brick with ceramic tile facings to ground floor, cafe and projection end. Flat roof not visible. Modernist streamlined style based on German examples. Quadrant corner entrance has four glazed doors with overlights under a fascia and flat canopy extended to left. Quadrant - shaped cafe above entrance has a completely glazed wall, with steel uprights and close horizontals, under a tall cream - tiled parapet. The Westborough front to left has a black-tiled ground floor with display frames and inset left doorway. Above the extended canopy rises a six - storey tower sandwiching a red-striped cream - glazed fin which rises above the tower roof to hold the legend CINEMA (now removed). Left of the fin a fully-glazed stairshaft. To left of tower a five-storey four-bay section, cream-tiled above the ground floor, has large first-floor and small second-floor windows with close-set steel glazing bars. Upper floors blank but for legend ODEON in free-standing letters (now removed) and green tile bands above. Quadrant left angle in brick. Northway front shows a three-storey five-bay block with shops below (most retaining some original glazing) and horizontally-barred windows above. Behind this the body of the auditorium descends in three wide steps from the tower to the north end.

Interior: All the architectural features and most-of the fittings remain including doors, architraves and skirtings, panelling, handrails, much of the seating, some floor coverings including original carpets; light fittings anti original house telephones. Wide, uncluttered austere auditorium relies for its effect on subtle shifts of lines but has bands and panels of cast leafy ornament around the screen area. Historical note: This Cinema is of interest as a good example of the Odeon "house style" mainly developed by Harry Weedon's firm, and instantly recognisable. It is now of special importance as the only remaining major Odeon with its auditorium in the original, undivided state.

Listing NGR: TA0389488369

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.