Ace Cinema is a Grade II* listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1981. A Art Deco Cinema. 1 related planning application.
Ace Cinema
- WRENN ID
- standing-shingle-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Harrow
- Constituency
- Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1981
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- Ace Cinema, Rayners Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 130 873
- Coordinates
- 51.57389, -0.37065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cinema, 1936, by F E Bromige. The cinema is constructed of mass concrete and brick, with a flat asphalt roof. It has a tall, triple-bowed concrete frontage, with a very wide, central bowed projection. Convex, concave metal windows rise to full height within this projection. A flat, bowed concrete canopy extends across the front and above the entrance doors. Rising upwards from the entrance canopy is a significant concrete feature shaped like a stylised elephant’s trunk, with the curved "head" projecting in front of and above the bowed parapet.
The interior includes an oval-shaped entrance foyer, with steps and railings leading to a sunken tea-room in the centre, which features a cigar-shaped, coved plaster ceiling. The auditorium is characterized by a concrete horizontal fluted gallery front and inward-curving walls. It is dominated by a fibrous plaster ceiling with deep coved ribs that drive forward and downward towards the proscenium arch, which is flanked by fluted side columns.
The cinema is a remarkably individual design, noted for being the least altered late 1930s streamlined “art deco” cinema.
Local climate
Ace Cinema sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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