Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563254

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