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Romford Gas Company offices/showrooms
Key Words :- gas office
Address :- 131 South Street, Romford, London, Greater London, RM1 1NX
Grid Ref :- TQ 5140 8853
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.57531 , Long 0.183419
Local Authority :- Havering London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Essex
Site Status :- Site extant - No Protection
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to mixed use
Site Dates :- 1937 -
Description and History of Site:-
Former offices and showrooms of the Romford Gas and Coke Company.
Two-storey red brick building with green slate roof on corner of Eastern Road and South Street. Now occupied by Vedi Aparthotel.
Dated 1937 on Eastern Road frontage.
Locally listed:
131 South Street was built as a gas company showroom but has been later converted for use as a series of social
venues and night clubs. It is currently a hotel.
Two-storey corner building with generous roof space. Brick construction with brick quoin detailing and stone dressing,
white rendered detailing around main entrance and shopfront opening at ground floor. All windows appear to be
modern powder coated metal replacements. Main entrance in apex of building, with arched pediment and dentillation
and mock sash window with stone surround and Juliette balcony with metal railing above. Façade along South Street is
three bay, with shopfront at ground floor and three mock sash windows at first floor, the central one with Juliette
balcony. Façade along Eastern Road is thirteen bays long. The first three bays from the apex mirror the façade on
South Street. Secondary entrances in the sixth and thirteenth bay with arched stone pediment. Top-hung windows with
glazing bars, three with balconettes. Cementitious slate hipped roof (originally tile) with wide dented cornice. Roof ridge
line has been raised.
The building is constructed to a design indicative of the Neo-Georgian style. It is demonstrative of the development of
South Street during the 1920s-30s and makes a striking counterpart to the contemporary Art Deco-style buildings as
the Times Furniture Store and Odeon Cinema on the opposite side. Recent alterations have replaced all windows on
the building, extended to the rear and raised the roof.
The Romford Gas Company was established in 1825 by Mr G.M. Bell and occupied the site of the Odeon Cinema. In
1892 the company built new works in Nursery Walk and the site on South Street became the Gas Company Showroom
until the new building was opened in 1938 on the opposite side of the road.
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Grid Ref :- TQ 5140 8853
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.57531 , Long 0.183419
Local Authority :- Havering London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Essex
Site Status :- Site extant - No Protection
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to mixed use
Site Dates :- 1937 -
Former offices and showrooms of the Romford Gas and Coke Company.
Two-storey red brick building with green slate roof on corner of Eastern Road and South Street. Now occupied by Vedi Aparthotel.
Dated 1937 on Eastern Road frontage.
Locally listed:
131 South Street was built as a gas company showroom but has been later converted for use as a series of social
venues and night clubs. It is currently a hotel.
Two-storey corner building with generous roof space. Brick construction with brick quoin detailing and stone dressing,
white rendered detailing around main entrance and shopfront opening at ground floor. All windows appear to be
modern powder coated metal replacements. Main entrance in apex of building, with arched pediment and dentillation
and mock sash window with stone surround and Juliette balcony with metal railing above. Façade along South Street is
three bay, with shopfront at ground floor and three mock sash windows at first floor, the central one with Juliette
balcony. Façade along Eastern Road is thirteen bays long. The first three bays from the apex mirror the façade on
South Street. Secondary entrances in the sixth and thirteenth bay with arched stone pediment. Top-hung windows with
glazing bars, three with balconettes. Cementitious slate hipped roof (originally tile) with wide dented cornice. Roof ridge
line has been raised.
The building is constructed to a design indicative of the Neo-Georgian style. It is demonstrative of the development of
South Street during the 1920s-30s and makes a striking counterpart to the contemporary Art Deco-style buildings as
the Times Furniture Store and Odeon Cinema on the opposite side. Recent alterations have replaced all windows on
the building, extended to the rear and raised the roof.
The Romford Gas Company was established in 1825 by Mr G.M. Bell and occupied the site of the Odeon Cinema. In
1892 the company built new works in Nursery Walk and the site on South Street became the Gas Company Showroom
until the new building was opened in 1938 on the opposite side of the road.
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