GOLDERS GREEN HIPPODROME
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286941
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1973
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDERS GREEN HIPPODROME, NORTH END ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDERS GREEN HIPPODROME, NORTH END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Barnet (London Borough)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 25301 87415
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/01/2013
TQ 2587 28/6
5004
23.10.73
NORTH END ROAD
Golders Green Hippodrome
II
Former variety theatre, now concert hall and studio, 1913 by Bertie
Crewe. Brick and concrete, rendered on main facades, with partial
steel frame, asphalt roof with octagonal cupola. Rectangular plan on
prominent corner site, where lies the entrance. Main facade of three
storeys and seven bays faces bus station to side between rusticated
stair towers with Diocletian attic windows. Giant Ionic order, with
pediments over second floor windows. All windows small paned
casements, some with coloured leaded glass. Exit doors in centre,
formerly giving access to the pit and gallery, are panelled with
small coloured leaded lights. Elevation to North End Road similarly
seven bays between rusticated towers, with Ionic order and smaller
casements but identical exit doors. Corner entrance has three double
panelled doors with bevelled glass between Tuscan columns.
Interior. Entrance foyer with moulded dentil frieze and thin swags
leads to terrazzo-floored stairs. Doorcases to stalls and circle
entrances have fluted Egyptian-inspired columns and swags.
Auditorium with proscenium, extended stage and two circles, the upper
partially blocked. Square proscenium with triglyph cornice and deep
cove is flanked by giant Doric columns separating boxes; above these
are urns and pediments surmounted by charioteers pulled by lions.
Double doors at sides of balconies, the upper pedimented and with a
frieze of heads and swags over, the lower with engaged Doric columns
in front supporting serpentine ends of gallery. Plaster panels and
pilasters on side walls. The upper balcony front pure Doric, the
lower with more Renaissance loucheness. Coffered ceiling.
Listed as a rare example of a surviving suburban theatre, largely
intact.
Source: Curtains!, 1982.
Jean Holden, Golders Green Hippodrome, 1913-68, unpublished City
University MA thesis, 1989
Listing NGR: TQ2530187415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199014
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curtains or A New Life for Old Theatres, (1982)
Holden, J, Golders Green Hippodrome 1913-1968
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
