The White Hall

SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CLATTERFIELD TQ 88 NE GARDENS (South side) 2/10007 The White Hall GV II Built as a tennis club house, now stage school with flat. Designed in 1934 by D N Martin Kaye, the Head of Southend School of Architecture. International Modern style, designed to be the focal point of a planned modernist development projected by the Thurston family of which only two houses, in Clatterfield Gardens, were built. Rendered brick, flat felt roof, steel framed windows. U plan, 2 storeys to north, remainder single storey. The principal elevation (east) consists of a hall with a range of 3 pairs of french doors, each flanked by full-length fixed lights, all with horizontal glazing bars. To right, projecting 2-storey block has at first floor high-level ribbon windows around both corners and similar window to ground floor left. To left a projecting low single storey range with a corner window to left and one 3-light and one single light window. Almost continuous drip band to window heads. Rear elevation has range of 3 ribbon windows to hall above drip band; double doors and corner window to right; 4-light window and door to left, 2-light square window to first floor. Hall has coved cornice and retains wooden bar in alcove. Foundation stone inscribed "Laid by Diana and Dick Thurston 21 Nov 1931."

Listing NGR: TQ8544986929