LABWORTH CAFE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268484
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1996
- Statutory Address:
- LABWORTH CAFE, WESTERN ESPLANADE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- LABWORTH CAFE, WESTERN ESPLANADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Castle Point (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Canvey Island
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80142 82398
Details
TQ88SW CANVEY ISLAND WESTERN ESPLANADE
Labworth Cafe
1658-/4/10002 II
Cafe with integral shelters. Built by Ove Arup, Christiani and Nielsen 1932-33. Functional International Moderne style. Built of reinforced concrete with flat roof. Circular drum of cafe on first floor level supported on piles (now concealed by rise in land level) with two arms extending from this enclosing shelters with steel piers on the seaward side. Hardwood windows extend the full diameter of the circle with some top opening lights. Entrance by doorcase in splayed bay facing sea supported on 4 metal columns. Staircase to cafe which has circular columns supporting ring beam and original shallow cone-shaped light fittings. Doors lead on to roofs of shelters which originally had thin steel columns supporting canopies. A pioneering building of the Modern Movement which predates the Gorilla House at London Zoo by Lubetkin and Tecton's Penguin House, and one of the only architectural designs by Ove Arup.
Listing NGR: TQ8014282398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461758
- 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.
End of official listing