Description

DARTINGTON SHINNER'S BRIDGE SX7862 - SX7962 Central Office (Shinners Bridge 12/149 Centre)

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Offices of the Dartington Hall Estate. 1935 by W E Lescaze of Howe and Lescaze of America, assisted by R Hening; later alterations. Whitewashed rendered brick cavity walls with concrete coping to the parapets concealing flat roofs. Plan: International Modern Style building. Basically H-shaped on plan with a short north east wing and the stump of a south west wing. A low building on a sloping site, it is 2 storeys on the higher south side and 3 storeys on the lower north side. The north east and north west wings drop down to 2 storeys, the longer north west wing was originally open on the ground storey and supported on very slender steel tube posts, but it has now been underbuilt. The south east wing is single storey but heightened in late C20 to 2 storeys with a small boiler house and chimney on the south end. The building was designed to be extended and altered. The extensions and alterations which have been carried out make the original room use difficult to reconstruct. Exterior: 2 storeys on the south side. 3 storeys on the north side. the elevations are characterised by the long bands of metal-frame windows with concrete cills, which are continued around the south west corner but stop short of the corners elsewhere. Generally the window bands are deeper on the ground storey except on the 3 storey north elevation of the central wing which has shallow ground and first floor window bands lighting the corridors on these floors,k and similarly the north east wing which has deeper windows on the first floor. The wall surfaces are plain whitewashed render and apart from the windows the only interruptions are the very small louvred wall ventilators. On the south elevation there are cantilevered reinforced concrete canopies over 2 doorways, the right-hand is in the angle with the south east wing, the left-hand has a section of black glazed tile wall to its left. On the south elevation a reinforced concrete flight of steps in the angle with the north west wing with a bent steel tube handrail. Interior: In the projecting south west wing there is the entrance hall off which corridors branch into the wings and to the side of the entrance hall the stair well which contains a reinforced concrete stair with an aluminium tube balustrade. References: Architects drawings in the Dartington Hall archive.

Listing NGR: SX7860462042

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• Wikidata Q26610567

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