Cheviot House, Commercial Road
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Cheviot House, Commercial Road
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 12 Mar 2012
The curves give the date away - this must be 1930s. Art Deco windows too, though the top storey must be an unfortunate later addition. Now offices for Tower Hamlets Council. Update (2016): it was built in 1937 to the designs of G.G. Winbourne for cloth merchants Kornberg & Segal Ltd. The six upper floors were let out as flatted factories to high-class tailoring firms prior to the building's conversion to council offices in the 1950s. Having been vacant for a while, its future is uncertain and the Twentieth Century Society is supporting a request for its listing.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.514822
Longitude
-0.058874