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Latitude: 51.5175 / 51°31'2"N
Longitude: -0.1194 / 0°7'9"W
OS Eastings: 530581
OS Northings: 181517
OS Grid: TQ305815
Mapcode National: GBR KB.B6
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.W470
Plus Code: 9C3XGV8J+X6
Entry Name: 233, High Holborn
Listing Date: 11 August 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378888
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478249
ID on this website: 101378888
Location: Holborn, Camden, London, WC1V
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
CAMDEN
TQ3081NE HIGH HOLBORN
798-1/101/835 (South side)
11/08/71 No.233
II
Office block. 1930. By Frederick Etchells & Herbert A Welch.
For the advertising agency WS Crawford Ltd, remodelling an
existing building. Steel frame construction with brick panel
infilling. External finish of roughcast cement with polished
black marble ground floor frontage.
6 bays with splayed corner bay. Double entrance doors of plain
stainless steel with grille over. Continuous strip windows
with frames and mullions of stainless steel glazed with
prismatic glass alternate with bands of roughcast.
INTERIOR: contemporary internal decor and fittings remained in
1973 but very little now.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in
England, the office block has good claim to be the first
office block in England inspired by the International style.
Etchells started his career as a Vorticist painter in Paris
before the First World War, turned to architecture in the
1920s and was a founding member of the Twentieth Century Group
in 1930. In 1927 he translated Le Corbusier's "Vers une
Architecture" into English: he ended his career restoring
churches in Berkshire.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: London, 1,
The Cities of London and Westminster: London: -1972: 362).
Listing NGR: TQ3058181517
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