Odeon Cinema
ODEON CINEMA, RABY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250393
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address:
- ODEON CINEMA, RABY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250393
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address 1:
- ODEON CINEMA, RABY 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:
- ODEON CINEMA, RABY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 50573 32953
Details
HARTLEPOOL RABY ROAD NZ 5032 (west side) 4/92 & 10/92 Odeon Cinema
GV II
Wrongly shown on O.S. plan as Hart Road. Cinema, 1936 by W. & T. R. Milburn Partnership. Steel and concrete structure clad in dull red brick and sandstone ashlar, roof not visible. Gently-curved front with main mass stepping gradually upwards from right to symmetrical frontispiece above entrance. Channelled rusticated ground floor with 9 blank panels in centre and right parts. Paired entrances with ticket office between and quadrant-curved sides with small curved shop windows. Wide projecting canopy, with fluted fascia and patterned soffit, extends to right to shelter long-forgotten queues. Tall frieze above entrance carved with over-life-size figures of athletic dancers in Art Deco background. Vertical panels above to stepped parapet. Blank upper right part has close-set parallel brick bands above stone floor band which continues below frieze into curved left angle bay with small shop below full-height curved stair window with close-set mullions and transom at second-floor level. Narrow bands of windows on plain left return. Disused at time of survey. Formerly known as Majestic Cinema.
Listing NGR: NZ5057332953
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432715
- 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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