Community Centre and surround to attached pond, City of London, London

Entry Name: Community Centre and surround to attached pond

Listing Date: 4 December 1997

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1021949

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466573

ID on this website: 101021949

Location: St Luke's, City of London, London, EC1Y

County: London

District: City and County of the City of London

Electoral Ward/Division: Cripplegate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of London

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): City of London

Church of England Parish: St Giles Cripplegate

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description

TQ 3282 SW
627-0/3/10172

FANN STREET (east side)
Community Centre and surround to attached pond

GV
II
Community centre, with pool to rear. Design won in competition in 1952, built to revised designs 1955-57. The competition, which included the community centre, won by Geoffry Powell, architects for built scheme Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Ove Arup and Partners, engineers. Grey brick walls, part load-bearing, and reinforced concrete.

Flat roof. Building entered from ground floor, which is the upper storey. Lower floor set in basement courtyard, part sunken, overlooking pool and formal garden. Ground floor hall, with raised roof over stage, dressing rooms and kitchen. Lower floor has club room and games floor. Timber windows, full height to front entrance hall in set-back screen. Double timber doors with tile cladding to their side. Clerestory glazing to sides, and to right-hand half of garden front, above tile cladding. The rest of the exposed one and a half storeys fully glazed. Fire exits to far side lead to walkways on both levels.

Simple interiors, the main hall and clubrooms with timber floors. Stone surrounds to pool, with stepping stones added 1957-58.

The community centre was an integral part of the competition brief, and its use of two levels and the treatment of the pool surround and paved area to its rear well demonstrate Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's aesthetic.

HISTORY AND ANALYSIS
The development and importance of the Golden Lane Estate is explained in the entry for Great Arthur House.

(City of London Corporation Record Office: Records of the competition, 1951-2. Surviving drawings.; Derek Bean: The Golden Lane Competition, Bartlett School MSc Thesis: -1987; Architectural Review: June 1957: 415-26) .

Listing NGR: TQ3223082082

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