THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE

THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE, WARE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268699
Date first listed:: 09-May-1994
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE
Statutory Address:: THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE, WARE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268699
Date first listed:: 09-May-1994
List Entry Name:: THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE, WARE ROAD

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.

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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:: THE FORMER ADDIS FACTORY, WESTERN RANGE, WARE ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 33248 12776

Details

HERTFORD

TL3312 WARE ROAD 817-1/18/238 (South side) 09/05/94 The former Addis Factory, western range

GV II

Office range, formerly part of factory (workshops now demolished). 1935 with late C20 alterations. By Douglas Hamilton for the Addis Company. Red brick with profiled concrete detailing, continuous steel framed glazing and a flat concrete roof. Linear plan, running east-west, formerly with workshop ranges to the south, and with entrance in return at east end. EXTERIOR: north elevation; 2 storeys, the upper floor carried on a profiled and projecting concrete beam which extends the full length of the building as a storey band. Main body of office building to the west, with curved north-west corner. Full-length expanse of steel framed glazing 6 rectangular panes high to ground floor, 4-panes high to first floor, with projecting continuous sills and heads, the upper floor glazing with deep bands of brick walling above and below. Towards east end, advanced 2-storey stair tower with curved front, the lower floor substantially of brick with a shallow clerestory band, the upper floor almost wholly glazed, with lights 10-panes high extending around the entire upper wall surface. Above and behind, set on the flat roof of the main range, a shallow tower with a curved north face echoes the profile of the stair tower. To the east, the end entrance curves around the corner, a double doorway set within a quadrant reveal below the curve of the storey beam which forms a canopy for the entrance. Above, a first-floor window, 4-panes high, follows the curve of the frontage. The doorway has original glazed doors, door furniture and 6-pane overlight set on a diagonally-tiled threshold. West end elevation with stepped brick staircase to first floor doorway, and hooped metal ladder to roof level. Above the doorway, a clock face made up of individually-mounted numerals. Late C20 extension to rear replaces workshops, and echoes modelling of main elevation. INTERIOR: main office interiors now remodelled, but entrance lobby, stair and first floor boardroom retain original detailing. The staircase is supported by a concrete column, which extends upwards and fans outwards as it rises to support the roof. Original doors, door furniture, boardroom furniture

and interior glass wall blocks have been retained. An increasingly rare example of a streamlined 'moderne' design of the 1930s, as applied to industrial architecture. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 191; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 102-5; Miller M (ed): Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979: Hertford: 1979-: PANEL 9; Architectural Guide to Cambridge and East Anglia since 192O: Cambridge: 1982-: 164).

Listing NGR: TL3324812776

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Legacy System number:: 461540
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Architectural Guide to Cambridge and East Anglia since 1920, (1982), 164
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 102-105
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 191
'Hertfordshire Association of Architects' in Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979, (1979)

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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.