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Katharine House, Katharine Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
A large retail/commercial development, which included a shopping precinct and St... (more)
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1 Edridge Road
by Stephen Richards
for square TQ3265
Modestly-sized curtain-walled tower with canted corners, dating probably from... (more)
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102 George Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
The large expanse of mirrored glass dates this block probably to the 1970s or... (more)
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41 Cherry Orchard Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3266
Office block almost entirely sheathed in mirror glass, which dates it probably... (more)
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Southern House, Walpole Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
By G. and D. Crump in 1963-67.
Presumably built for British Rail as until 1995... (more)
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Canterbury House, Sydenham Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3266
Category: Offices
By T.P. Bennett and Sons, 1963-65.
Between the 1950s and the 1970s Croydon... (more)
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St George's House, Park Lane (2)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
One of Croydon's more talismanic office blocks. A slab-and-podium job by... (more)
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St George's House, Park Lane (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
One of Croydon's more talismanic office blocks. A slab-and-podium job by... (more)
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Corinthian House, Dingwall Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
By Richard Seifert and Partners, 1964-65. The bend in the road is echoed by the... (more)
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Carolyn House, Dingwall Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
By D. Rowswell and Partners, in 1961-63.
At the time of my visit new... (more)
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Suffolk House, College Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
By Raglan Squire and Partners, 1960-61, early on in Croydon's development.... (more)
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Ryland House, Charles Road (2)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
Built for the Post Office and now British Telecom offices - at one point it... (more)
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Ryland House, Charles Road (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
Built for the Post Office and now British Telecom offices - at one point it... (more)
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22 Addiscombe Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3365
Quite a curiosity - only the glass is flat! One has an urge to flatten it like a... (more)
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12-16 Addiscombe Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Probably Croydon's most distinctive post-war office block - it has reached... (more)
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Commercial Union House, Addiscombe Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
One of Croydon's best new office blocks in Pevsner's opinion, crisply... (more)
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Commercial Union House, Cherry Orchard Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
One of Croydon's best new office blocks in Pevsner's opinion, crisply... (more)
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Wellesley Road (2)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Croydon's main artery, and the one which best encapsulates its post-war... (more)
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Wellesley Road (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Croydon's main artery, and the one which best encapsulates its post-war... (more)
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5 Bedford Park
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3266
Y-shaped office block with canted windows wedged between narrow vertical brick... (more)
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Sunley House, Bedford Park
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3266
By Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, 1965-68, "large and utilitarian"... (more)
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Lunar House, Wellesley Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3266
A formidable brute of a building, broadly T-shaped with a lower, hexagonal... (more)
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Rothschild House, Wellesley Road
by Stephen Richards
for square TQ3265
The dominant tower above the Whitgift shopping centre, dating from 1965-70 and... (more)
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Black-Clawson House, Wellesley Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Built 1962-63 to the designs of Newman, Levinson & Partners. It is now known... (more)
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Whitgift Centre, Wellesley Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
This vast shopping centre, covering eleven acres and the largest in London until... (more)
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St Crispin's House, Park Lane
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
By Richard Seifert & Partners, 1981-83, in the reflective glass so... (more)
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Norfolk House, Wellesley Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Built 1958-59 to the designs of Howell & Brooks. Note the rather modish... (more)
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Taberner House, Park Lane (2)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
A large slab and podium block designed in-house by H. Thornley in 1964-67, the... (more)
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Leon House, High Street (2)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
One of the more original of Croydon's towers. Two staggered slabs of... (more)
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Leon House, High Street (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
One of the more original of Croydon's towers. Two staggered slabs of... (more)
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Grosvenor House, High Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Dated 1960-61. the architect H. Hubbard Ford. It has clearly been re-clad since... (more)
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Focus House and London House, Dingwall Avenue
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
A matching pair of 1960s office blocks, both looking somewhat under-utilised.... (more)
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Emerald House, Lansdowne Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
This looks to me like a 1960s building which has recently been re-clad (and... (more)
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Davis House, Robert Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Built in 1960-61 to the designs of G. & D. Crump. A plaque records that:... (more)
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AMP House, Dingwall Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Built for the Australian Mutual Provident Society in 1968-70, but now just an... (more)
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St George's Walk (2)
by Stephen Richards
for square TQ3265
A covered shopping precinct inside a large, square development by Ronald Ward... (more)
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St George's Walk (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Inside a large, square development by Ronald Ward & Partners in 1962-64. It... (more)
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15-37 High Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
This is the west side of a large, square development by Ronald Ward &... (more)
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Taberner House, Park Lane (1)
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
A large slab and podium block designed in-house by H. Thornley in 1964-67, the... (more)
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AMP House and Staveley House, Dingwall Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3265
Category: Offices
Built for the Australian Mutual Provident Society in 1968-70, but now just an... (more)
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Coventry Market roof, 1962
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SP3378
The market was built in the late 1950s and the roof level car parking was part... (more)
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336-340 Brixton Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3176
No. 340 is an early or mid C19th villa. Grade II listed.
Its neighbour is an... (more)
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Guildhall, Gresham Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ3281
An interesting, if not entirely successful, juxtaposition of old and new. The... (more)
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Nineteen-fifties flats, Fortis Green, London N2
by Christopher Hilton
geograph for square TQ2889
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The Albert, Victoria Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ2979
Category: Public house
An "honest" pub of yellow stock brick, built in 1862 by J. Carter... (more)
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Former works, Locksbrook Road, Bath
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square ST7364
A groovy bit of 1970s experimental architecture/engineering by Farrell Grimshaw... (more)
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188-194 High Street, Cheltenham
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square SO9422
An assertive slice of 1960s/1970s architecture, making a concession to rooflines... (more)
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114-124 Charing Cross Road
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ2981
Turning the acute corner to Flitcroft Street is a block of 1888 by Roumieu &... (more)
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14-18 Great Pulteney Street
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TQ2980
Nos. 14-16 appears to date from the 1950s (currently occupied by design... (more)
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Sorting office, Thorpe Road, Norwich
by Stephen Richards
geograph for square TG2408
"A good example of mid-1950s architecture, nicely grouped and with much... (more)
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