Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW SEAFORTH ROAD
778-1/3/117 (East side)
The Fitness Connection Health Club

II

Formerly known as: The Palladium Cinema SEAFORTH ROAD.
Cinema, now fitness club. Dated 1913 in pediment; altered.
White faience and common brick, pitched slate roof to main
range behind entrance block. Edwardian Baroque style.
Rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with entrance
block parallel to street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical, with a narrow
pedimented centre, channelled pilasters to the corners and the
centre, a moulded plinth, a string-course over the ground
floor with egg-and-dart enrichment, and a dentilled cornice
and plain parapet to the upper floor broken by the pediment.
The centre has a wide recessed entrance with altered doors
(the head now covered by a recent fascia board), a large keyed
oculus at 1st floor with a festoon, and a wreath in the
pediment containing raised lettering "1913". Both floors of
the wide outer bays have triple windows with individual keyed
architraves and continuous sills with double festoons, those
at 1st floor with 12-pane sashes but those at ground floor now
covered by lettered boards.
The return sides of this range, of common brick, have similar
coupled and triple windows on each floor. The south side of
the main range has 2 large pedimented doorways, the 1st with
altered doors and the other blocked, and 3 large enriched
oculi above; the north side has plain doorway and plain oculi.
INTERIOR: foyer with two staircases of white marble;
auditorium altered at ground floor and suspended ceiling
inserted, but above that original moulded plaster panels and
decorated segmental-vaulted roof survive (slightly damaged).

Listing NGR: SJ3322096814

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548695

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]