Bushey Studios is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1985. Film studios.
Bushey Studios
- WRENN ID
- sheer-trefoil-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1985
- Type
- Film studios
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 1395 BUSHEY MELBOURNE ROAD (Northwest side) Bushey
13/137 Bushey Studios 11.4.85 (Formerly listed as Cygnet Studios) - II
Film Studios. Core is mid C19 Methodist Chapel. Extended and converted to form a private theatre by Sir H.Herkomer c.1887. Further extended and adapted to use as a daylight film studio by Herkomer in 1912 to 1913. Colourwashed brick with glass and metal sheeting to upper daylight studio. Glass roof. 5 bays to main block. Entrance in lean-to addition. 12 light casements with iron glazing bars and segmental heads, buttress strips. Brick corner piers to upper glass house. Left gable end to High Street has a lower 1 storey wing attached, blind openings with gauged brick heads, a lower bay to road with small openings and deep eaves to a hipped slate roof. Right gable end has a slightly lower projecting wing. 2 round headed casements below an entrance to upper stage with steps up. Interior largely subdivided. Herkomer's daylight glass house is the earliest surviving film studio in England. (Pevsner 1977, Hertfordshire Countryside, No. 172, Aug. 1973).
Listing NGR: TQ1355895099
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