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Latitude: 51.5118 / 51°30'42"N
Longitude: 0.5946 / 0°35'40"E
OS Eastings: 580142
OS Northings: 182398
OS Grid: TQ801823
Mapcode National: GBR QPR.159
Mapcode Global: VHJL9.886D
Plus Code: 9F32GH6V+PV
Entry Name: Labworth Cafe
Listing Date: 16 April 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268484
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461758
ID on this website: 101268484
Location: Castle Point, Essex, SS8
County: Essex
District: Castle Point
Civil Parish: Canvey Island
Built-Up Area: Canvey Island
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Canvey Island St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Coffeehouse Building International Style
TQ88SW CANVEY ISLAND WESTERN ESPLANADE
Labworth Cafe
1658-/4/10002 II
Cafe with integral shelters. Built by Ove Arup, Christiani and Nielsen 1932-33. Functional International Moderne style. Built of reinforced concrete with flat roof. Circular drum of cafe on first floor level supported on piles (now concealed by rise in land level) with two arms extending from this enclosing shelters with steel piers on the seaward side. Hardwood windows extend the full diameter of the circle with some top opening lights. Entrance by doorcase in splayed bay facing sea supported on 4 metal columns. Staircase to cafe which has circular columns supporting ring beam and original shallow cone-shaped light fittings. Doors lead on to roofs of shelters which originally had thin steel columns supporting canopies. A pioneering building of the Modern Movement which predates the Gorilla House at London Zoo by Lubetkin and Tecton's Penguin House, and one of the only architectural designs by Ove Arup.
Listing NGR: TQ8014282398
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