Description

CAMDEN

TQ3082SW HERBRAND STREET
798-1/95/827 (West side)
09/03/82 Frames Coach Station and LB Camden
Car Park

II

Car park and coach station. 1931. By Wallis, Gilbert and
Partners. For Daimler Car Hire Ltd. Reinforced concrete
construction. "Modernistic" 4-storey garage with attached
offices, lift blocks and ramp.
EXTERIOR: garage with large rectangular metal framed windows
of small horizontally set lights set between plain concrete
continuous horizontal bands at floor levels and divided by
channelled concrete pilaster strips, the channelling
corresponding with the horizontally set lights. Ground floor
entrance bays. Attached to left, a lift shaft with narrow
vertically set window, above a door, rising the height of the
shaft. 3 and 2 storeys of offices with similar fenestration to
the garage, the 1st floor above an entrance bay on the
diagonal right return. Parapet of lower level articulated with
narrow vertical niches. Ground floor of pavement facade with
deep rectangular window recess beneath central 1st floor
window and small rectangular recess to the left. Moulded
concrete and coloured inset faience decorative detail. At the
right angle, a semicircular stair turret, with door and small
window, to offices above. To the right, a projecting lift
shaft, the central, narrow vertically set window emphasised
with vertical strips of coloured faience and moulded concrete
balcony at the base, above 3 square-headed entrances. 3 corner
windows at each floor level on the left hand angle light the
adjoining stair. Attached to the right of the lift, a sweeping
spiral ramp (giving access to the upper floors) expressed
externally and emphasised by windows (similar to the garage)
which follow the rake of the ramp through 3 storeys. Vehicle
entrance next to base of lift shaft. Single storey coach
station entrance to the right with later doors and fascia
above.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Daimler-owned cars were stored on the upper
floors while the basement was used as a car park, for
privately owned cars, with a waiting-room, attendant's office,
lavatories and telephones. Each floor had an electrically
operated pressure washing plant for the cars.

Listing NGR: TQ3012082177

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Daimler Car Hire Garage at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5209437

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)