2020 - Top Ten Endangered Buildings
Our list of Victorian and Edwardian buildings at risk in 2020
Samaritan Hospital for Women in London
Grade II-listed – 1889-90 – W.G. Habershon & J.F. Fawkner. This purpose-built hospital, by W.G. Habershon and J.F. Fawkner, opened in 1889 and was one of the country’s most important...
Plas Alltran in Holyhead, Wales
Grade II-listed – c.1890 – Arthur Baker. Plan Alltran’s picturesque style is said to be modelled on Plas Mawr, a fine Elizabethan townhouse in Conwy, which survives to this day....
Northgate Malt House Building in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
Grade II-listed– 1864 – T & W Bradley. Malt houses soaked cereal grain in water to create malt to brew beer. The traditional malt house was largely phased out during...
Former Anglo-Bavarian Brewery in Shepton Mallet, Somerset
Grade II*-listed– 1864 – architect unknown. The imposing former Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, claimed to be the country’s first lager brewery, demonstrates the growth of colossal brewery buildings following the 1830 Beerhouse...
Former Bavaria Place Police Station in Bradford
Grade II-listed – 1877 – Milnes & France. This dramatic gothic towered former Police station on a corner plot in Bradford is in dire need of saving. Built in 1877...
Former Captain Cook Pub in Teesside, Middlesbrough
Grade II-listed– 1893 – Robert Moore. The former Captain Cook Pub has stood boarded up and empty for ten years. The sorry state of the building today is a far...
Darlington Street Methodist Church in Wolverhampton
Grade II*-listed – 1900-01 – Arthur Marshall. This impressive Baroque style church in Wolverhampton City Centre Conservation Area is a significant local landmark with its copper dome and twin west towers....
Ex-Prudential Assurance Company Offices in Oldham, Greater
Grade II-listed—1889 – A. Waterhouse & Son. This fine building is one of a series of offices designed by one of the Victorian period’s greatest architects Alfred Waterhouse. Waterhouse’s other...