Noahs House Boathouse
NOAH'S HOUSE BOATHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323741
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Noahs House Boathouse
- Statutory Address:
- NOAH'S HOUSE BOATHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323741
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Noahs House Boathouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOAH'S HOUSE BOATHOUSE
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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:
- NOAH'S HOUSE BOATHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cookham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU8775186899
Details
SU 88 NE
2/10010
COOKHAM
Noah's House Boathouse
II*
Boathouse and workshop,with music room or spare bedroom over. 1930, by Colin Lucas for his father; built by Lucas Lloyd and Co. Monolithic reinforced thin wall construction, rendered and painted white, with flat roof which forms overhanging hood. Modern Movement style. Single storey with first-floor music room. Long rectangular block with curved workshop at landward end and rectangular music room to river. Eleven windows. Plain entrance to boathouse via the workshop. First floor entrance to music room approached by double flight external steps with curved monolithic balustrades: large segmental arched balustrade at base of steps. Boathouse windows form a strip running the whole length of the building beneath the overhanging hood and have frameless glazing puttied directly into the rebated concrete mullions. The music room has similar windows to the river and over the boathouse roof. Opposite the entrance French doors give on to a small balcony with a monolithic balustrade. Simple double opening to river, with hood.
Noah's house, now much altered and extended, and its boathouse were the first reinforced concrete buildings in Britain in the Modern Movement style. Colin Lucas, the son of a motor car designer, determined to understand how the new Modem Movement style should be constructed in the appropriate material - concrete - and on leaving university set up his own building company. This is his oldest surviving work and first in this medium. The system of rebating the windows directly into the concrete was also innovatory, and was much repeated by architects in the 1950s and 1960s. Lucas went on to form a partnership with Amyas Connell and Basil Ward, with whom he built some of the most exciting modern houses of the 1930s, and then to the London County Council where he supervised the construction of its pioneering Alton West Estate.
Sources: Architect and Building News, 19 August 1932, pp.223-7. Architectural Association Journal, October 1956, pp.94-115. Muriel Emanuel, ed. Contemporary Architects, 1984, pp.482-3 Dennis Sharp, ed. Connell Ward Lucas, 1994.
Listing NGR: SU8775186899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sharp, D, Connell Ward Lucas, (1994)
Emmanuel, M, Contemporary Architects, (1984), 482-3
Architect and Building News in 19 August, (1932), 223-7
Architectural Association Journal in October, (1956), 94-115
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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