East Tilbury: 2 Bata Avenue
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East Tilbury: 2 Bata Avenue
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 20 Oct 2016
Along with the shoe factory, Tomáš Baťa also planned housing, schools and shops for his employees. 2 Bata Avenue, seen here, is now a Grade II Listed Building and the Historic England website describes it thus:- "House. 1930-1933. Designed by Vladimir Karfik and Frantizek Gahura and built by a variety of local contractors. Flat roofed. Hybrid construction, with front and side walls of concrete poured in lifts of about one metre in height; interior partition and rear walls appear to be made from brick and then faced in concrete. International Style. Two storeys and four-window range with half landing window on centre axis above main entrance. Entrances on returns. Thin projecting cornice. All openings flat arched. One of a pair of gateway buildings to Bata Avenue, their design was unique. Forms a group with Nos 4-34 (even) Bata Avenue." Curiously only the houses on the north side of Bata Avenue merit Grade II Listing. The other one in the pair of gateway buildings and the odd numbered houses do not. Judging by the signs stating "staff parking" on the building, it is not in residential use anymore.
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Image Location
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