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Latitude: 51.2777 / 51°16'39"N
Longitude: 1.0825 / 1°4'57"E
OS Eastings: 615084
OS Northings: 157690
OS Grid: TR150576
Mapcode National: GBR TY2.Y81
Mapcode Global: VHLGM.Q44T
Plus Code: 9F3373HM+32
Entry Name: 23, St George's Street
Listing Date: 24 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1273515
English Heritage Legacy ID: 444681
ID on this website: 101273515
Location: Canterbury, Kent, CT1
County: Kent
District: Canterbury
Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Canterbury
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Building
TR 1557 NW CANTERBURY ST GEORGE'S STREET
5/10000 No 23
II
Shop, formerly David Greig's butcher's shop. 1952-54. Robert Paine and Partners. Glass in varnished hardwood frames; pained panels; timber panels in bronze frames; mosaic cladding to pilotis; copper covered root; travertine and brick. Single double-height storey with rear block of three storeys at right-angles to the street. Corner site. Entrance to front; full glazing to ground floor on this side; painted opaque strip of vertical panels above, and continuous strip of windows below eaves. Return with 5 giant pilotis rising to support overhanging folded zigzag roof slab and encased to their upper parts with a strip of vertical glass panels, transparent to St George's Street and frosted to the return on Canterbury Lane. Behind the piers the lower part of the wall comprises zig-zag bronze-framed timber panels with small glazed display cases inset. Upper part of wall glazed. INTERIOR now has suspended ceiling; it was originally open to the roof Rear block with inscribed travertine wall facing St George's Street, separated by a vertical strip of glazing from brick returns. A rare example of a small architect-designed shop of the period. MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN BRITAIN, T Dannatt.
Listing NGR: TR1504257737
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