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* High rises in the Local Plan
* housing and a hotel on the civic centre (old palace)
and
* 16+ high rises from the draft Master Plan down the Lower High Street
* and there's others...
Category Archives: Neo-Classic
High Street No. 201-203 High Street (former Zodiac Toys) – Heritage Building Profile
This beautiful Art Deco building is thought to have been built in 1885, when it is recorded as the shop for H.J. Luker, a ‘Silk Mercer’. Unfortunately there is an application to turn this into a plain block of flats … Continue reading
Posted in Art Deo, High St North, Neo-Classic
Tagged Art Deco, Heritage Buildings, High Street (North)
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First Church of Christ Scientist
Striking octagonal building on Widmore Road. The listing describes it as “Christian Science Church. 1928 by E Braxton Sinclair in an inventive Neo-Classical style with brickwork and doors reminiscent of Art-Deco cinemas”. The peripheries have been converted to housing, along … Continue reading
Posted in Neo-Classic, the Cage Field triangle streets, named after compass points
Tagged E Braxton Sinclair, Neo-Classical, Widmore Road
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