Odeon Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1985. Cinema. 4 related planning applications.
Odeon Cinema
- WRENN ID
- rooted-mantel-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1985
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- Odeon Cinema, Great North Road, EN5 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 254 957
- Coordinates
- 51.64645, -0.18778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Odeon Cinema is a building constructed in 1934 by Edgar Simmons as a County Cinema, which was taken over by Odeon before its completion. It features a steel frame clad in brick, with a rendered centrepiece and a sheet metal roof. The layout includes a foyer on two levels that leads to a double-height auditorium with a balcony. The rendered, three-storey, six-bay rounded centrepiece has half-glazed entrance doors and six Moorish-style lancets that rise two storeys. This is flanked by brick towers adorned with red brick diaperwork and recessed panels.
Inside, the foyer includes a Moorish-style paybox and original doors, along with a moulded 'marble' column leading to an octagonal light well, and a decorative metal balustrade around the balcony and stairs. The auditorium showcases fine Art Deco design, featuring stepped mouldings around stepped Moorish lancets, decorative metal grilles, a cornice with devrons, and ceiling decoration based on octagonal patterns. The central octagon is surrounded by stepped mouldings and Art Deco "strapwork," and the proscenium arch also has stepped mouldings.
Local climate
Odeon Cinema sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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