Description

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SP 91 NW
4/10000

PITSTONE
MARSWORTH ROAD
Office Building at Pitstone Cement Works

(Formerly listed under MARSWORTHY ROAD)

II

Office. 1937. Peter Lind,contractor, for F.L.Smidth.
Reinforced concrete frame with coarse pebble-aggregate, now
painted white; flat asphalt concrete roof.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with central entrance hall containing
staircase, and with axial corridors on each floor to offices.
International Modern style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. 6-bay concrete frame, the
projecting piers supporting floors and flat roof, the first
floor and roof cantilevered out as deeply projecting canopies
around the whole building, interrupted only at the back [west]
where there is a large full-height wall of glass bricks in the
wider central bay lighting the hall. The ground floor over the
low basement windows also projects, but not so much. The bays
between the piers are taken up by large metal-frame windows;
the entrance, set back in the centre bay on the east front, is
approached by a later flight of stairs; the stairs on the
south end are also later.
INTERIOR: Large 2-storey central hall has a fine concrete
staircase, its sinuosly curved solid balustrades tubular
handrails coiled around cylindrical newels as spirals; the
staircase rises from the basement to the landing balcony
overlooking the hall. The glass brick wall lighting the hall
has what are reputedly the original cacti growing in front of
it . The internal partitions are glazed metal frames.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, Pevsner and Williamson.

Listing NGR: SP9325515400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526920

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