Daimler Car Hire Garage
Daimler Hire's Bloomsbury garage
The Daimler Car Hire Garage,[note 1] a garage built for Daimler Hire Limited and later known as the Frames Coach Station, in , in the Bloomsbury district of London, is a grade II listed building with Historic England.[1]
History[]
The building was completed in 1931 for Daimler Hire Limited in the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles to a design by the architects Wallis, Gilbert and Partners.[2][3][4]
Notes[]
- ^ This mistaken name for this building was coined by an American and published in a reference work by James Stevens Curl but it is not otherwise supported
References[]
- ^ Historic England. "FRAMES COACH STATION AND LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN CAR PARK (1378855)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 0-19-860678-8.
- ^ Sutcliffe, Anthony. (2006). London: An Architectural History. Yale University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0-300-11006-5.
- ^ "The Chronicle of the Car", , Illustrated London News, 1 August 1931, p. 200.
External links[]
Media related to Frames Coach Station and LB Camden Car Park at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Grade II listed commercial buildings
- Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden
- Art Deco architecture in London
- United Kingdom listed building stubs