233, HIGH HOLBORN
233, HIGH HOLBORN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378888
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 233, HIGH HOLBORN
- Statutory Address:
- 233, HIGH HOLBORN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378888
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 233, HIGH HOLBORN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 233, HIGH HOLBORN
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:
- 233, HIGH HOLBORN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30581 81517
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081NE HIGH HOLBORN
798-1/101/835 (South side)
11/08/71 No.233
II
Office block. 1930. By Frederick Etchells & Herbert A Welch.
For the advertising agency WS Crawford Ltd, remodelling an
existing building. Steel frame construction with brick panel
infilling. External finish of roughcast cement with polished
black marble ground floor frontage.
6 bays with splayed corner bay. Double entrance doors of plain
stainless steel with grille over. Continuous strip windows
with frames and mullions of stainless steel glazed with
prismatic glass alternate with bands of roughcast.
INTERIOR: contemporary internal decor and fittings remained in
1973 but very little now.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in
England, the office block has good claim to be the first
office block in England inspired by the International style.
Etchells started his career as a Vorticist painter in Paris
before the First World War, turned to architecture in the
1920s and was a founding member of the Twentieth Century Group
in 1930. In 1927 he translated Le Corbusier's "Vers une
Architecture" into English: he ended his career restoring
churches in Berkshire.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: London, 1,
The Cities of London and Westminster: London: -1972: 362).
Listing NGR: TQ3058181517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973), 362
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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