Odeon Cinema

The Odeon Cinema is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1930 by architects Julian Leathart and W.R. Grainger. It features a steel frame clad in brick with a faience front. The building has a double-height auditorium with a balcony positioned at right angles to the street, accessed through a series of long narrow foyers, with offices located above the entrance foyer.

The front of the cinema is three storeys high and consists of three bays designed in the Art Deco style. The entrance doors were added later in the 20th century. The windows feature Art Deco chevrons in their metal glazing and are set within a recessed three-bay central section, which is highlighted by a giant order of piers with Ionic Art Deco capitals. This central feature includes coloured panels adorned with lion's mask motifs and is flanked by stepped bands that run beneath a raised dentilled cornice. Above, there is a coved parapet with bead and reel detailing beneath an Art Deco cornice.

Inside, the entrance foyer showcases piers with Mayan-style friezes and Art Deco Ionic capitals supporting scroll brackets, along with a decorative cornice that encircles a D-shaped ceiling. The doorways are framed by scrolled Spanish-style architraves. The other foyers contain panelled Spanish-style doors, original light fittings, moulded cornicing, and scrolled Spanish-style plasterwork on the architraves and wall brackets. The auditorium retains an 'atmospheric' proscenium surround designed to evoke a Spanish courtyard, featuring seven elaborate metal grilles at the centre, aediculed openings on the sides, and loggias with pantiles along the auditorium walls. The ceiling is coffered and includes original lighting.

The Odeon Cinema is one of only three surviving 'atmospheric' interiors in Britain, alongside The Academy in Brixton and The Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park.