FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA

FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA, 468-476, HOE STREET E17

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245459
Date first listed:: 15-May-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA
Statutory Address:: FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA, 468-476, HOE STREET E17

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245459
Date first listed:: 15-May-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA, 468-476, HOE STREET E17

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

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:: FORMER EMPRESS CINEMA, 468-476, HOE STREET E17

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Waltham Forest (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3768688196

Details

TQ 38 NE 1802/2/10009

HOE STREET, E17 (South West side) Nos. 468-476 (even) Former Empress Cinema

II

Cinema. 1913, architect unknown, for Messrs Good Brothers, impressarios. Brick, with rendered facade incorporating stone decorations. Low foyer parallel with shops on street, with behind it a double-height auditorium at slight angle to street. Main facade a tripartite composition with higher central section, having a raised parapet supported on four Ionic columns over a projecting balcony. Behind this windows (boarded up at time of inspection) to projection box. Rest of upper facade blind, with lower parapet and an Ionic pilaster at each end. Dentiled string course and band to lower facade, with windows either side of paired double doors. Interior. Auditorium of double height with shallow balcony at rear. Barrel-vaulted roof and side walls with rich plaster decoration in panels, the side walls with pilasters incorporating rosettes and swags. Deep moulded cornice and frieze continued right round the auditorium. Cyma curved balcony front ending in projecting circular ends originally treated as boxes. Proscenium partially hidden by later canopy but retains pilasters to sides. Included as an unusually elaborate example of an early cinema, with exceptionally rich surviving plasterwork. The elaboration is especially remarkable for a small cinema in a suburban location.

Listing NGR: TQ3768688196

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Legacy System number:: 468679
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.