Ace Cinema

In the entry for

3/28 ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane

The Odeon Cinema

The address shall be amended to read ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane

Ace Cinema (formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)

In the entry for:

3/28 ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane

Ace Cinema (formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)

The grade shall be amended to read: II* (star).

The description shall be amended to read;

Cinema 1936 by F E Bromige. Mass concrete and brick; flat asphalt roof. Tall triple- bowed concrete frontage with very wide central bowed projection: convex flanking concave metal windows rise to full-height within. Flat and bowed concrete canopy across front and above entrance doors. Rising upwards from the entrance canopy is a great concrete feature in the shape of a stylised elephant's trunk, with the curved "head" projecting in front of and above the bowed parapet. Interior: oval-shaped entrance foyer, with steps and railings to sunken tea-room in centre which has cigar-shaped coved plaster ceiling. Auditorium has concrete horizontal fluted gallery front and inward-curving walls; it is dominated by a fibrous plaster ceiling with deep coved ribs driving forward and downward to proscenium arch which is flanked by fluted side columns. A remarkably individual cinema design, and noted as the least altered late 1930s streamlined "art deco" cinema.

ALEXANDRA AVENUE Rayners Lane 1. 5016

TQ 18 NW 3/28 13.3.81 The Odeon Cinema The Odeon cinema

II

1. 1. Architect F E Bromige. Tall frontage in concrete, triple bowed with the central bowed projection very wide with concave metal windows to full height within. From the entrance canopy upwards in a great concrete 'mullion' in the shape of a curved 'elephant's trunk, stylised, with the 'head' projecting in front and above the bowed parapet. To right and left of the centre are 2 full height metal bowed windows while embracing the Whole front is a flat, bowed concrete canopy protecting the entrance doors. The entrance foyer retains original decora- tion as does the auditorium with the wide proscenium arch, decorative ribbed ceiling, and concrete horizontal fluted gallery front.

Listing NGR: TQ1301087371