Wallis, Gilbert and Partners

Wallis, Gilbert and Partners was a British architectural partnership responsible for the design of many Art Deco buildings in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. It was established by Thomas Wallis (18731953) in 1916. Wallis had previously served with Sir Frank Baines in the Office of Works. Although the identity of Gilbert has not been established, architects who worked with them included James Warne and Harry Beken; later partners included Frederick Button,[1] Douglas Wallis (19011968), Agbolahan Adesegun (19352008) and J. W. MacGregor (d. 1994). Notable buildings include the Hoover Factory and the Firestone Tyre Factory. The firm also occasionally designed country houses, for instance, Limber and Ripley Grange at Loughton for Charles Frederick Clark, proprietor of the Caribonum group. The partnership was dissolved in 1945.[2]

Hoover Factory, Western Avenue, Perivale

Works

Tilling-Stevens Building, Maidstone
Former office buildings of The General Electric Company, Birmingham
Pyrene Building, Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex.

The firm also designed a number of bus garages for London Transport and its predecessors [10] at:-

Notes

  1. Joan S. Skinner (1997). Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939. Liverpool University Press. pp. 17–19. ISBN 978-0-85323-612-2. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  2. "Notice". The London Gazette. No. 37436. 18 January 1946. p. 540.
  3. Historic England. "Former Tilling-Stevens Factory (1408072)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  4. Historic England. "GEC Birmingham (1234517)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
  5. Daimler Hire Garage (Courtauld Institute of Art).
  6. Historic England, entry 1270424.
  7. "Former Hawker Siddeley site set for transformation".
  8. Wallis House (Art of the State).
  9. Historic England. "Richard Klinger Factory (1387704)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  10. Glazier, K (2006): London Transport Garages, Harrow Weald, Capital Transport Publishing
  11. Peckham Bus station (Alternative Future Peckham).

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