Court House, built 1969 by Fitzroy Robinson.
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LLHA0111
Court House, built 1969 by Fitzroy Robinson. Long, low building with strong horizontal emphasis, and located such that its entrance terminates views up Rochester Gardens. Dark brown brick with two horizontal bands of concrete above (separated by glazing). The upper concrete band overhangs that below it. Set back from the road behind low brown-brick walls and shrubbery. The main entrance is accessed via a flight of steps, and is surmounted by a flagpole. Fitzroy Robinson was the founder of one of the country’s largest and most prolific commercial practices, specialising particularly in ‘banker’s brutalism’. Source: http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/obituary-herbert-fitzroy-robinson-1914-2005/583145.article
ii. A well-designed example of a court building of this period
iv. The building is a good example of a work by a nationally well-regarded architect
ii. Outside of the conservation area. Designed to be sensitive to its historic setting, but still honest to the architecture of that period
iii. Because of its use, and its location terminating views up Rochester Gardens, the building forms a local landmark
i. The building survives particularly intact compared to many of its contemporaries, as it does not appear to have been largely altered or extended
iii. It remains in use for the purpose it was built for
Pre-2015
