A selection of 20th Century Listed Buildings in the UK

Peter Birch
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

In most people’s minds a listed building would be somewhere very old, steeped in heritage and history. However, quite surprisingly, not all listed buildings are old at all. Listed building insurance provider Lycetts took a look at some recent entries which were only built in the latter half of the past century.

First up, Carbrain Totem, near Glenhove Road, Cumbernauld which was built in 1966. It’s a category C listed building with an interesting past. In 1962 artist Brian Miller began working in the engineers’ department at Cumbernauld Development Corporation as a draughtsman, before being appointed as Town Artist within the Chief Architect’s and Planning department. In 1964 Miller set up a Design team, with their first major task to design and construct the car park in Cumbernauld Town Centre — the forerunner to the Totem sculpture’s concept. It became a listed building on March 13th 2017.

The Dorset Martyrs Memorial was built in 1986 and it’s a grade 2 listed building. In the early 1980s Elisabeth Frink commissioned to make a public sculpture to be placed at the former site of Dorchester’s gallows on Gallows Hill, following funding from the Art Council’s ‘Art for Public Places Scheme’, the Council of Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, and the Catholic Community in Dorset.

The Tomb of Rosalind Franklin, 1958 can be found in Brent, London and is grade 2 listed. In 1958 Franklin passed away at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Chelsea. She was then buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery and her Tomb became a listed building on March 7th 2017.

The Schlumberger Gould Research Centre and attached perimeter wall to the north was built between 1984–9 in Cambridge. It’s a grade 2 listed building and gained listed status in Feb 2017.

The Margam Crematorium was built in 1969 and its found along a service road that is south from Heol Cae’r- Bont, west of Junction 38 of the M4 motorway, in the county of Neath Port Talbot. It became a listed building on February 8th 2017.

The former Wing Headquarters Building can be found on Greenham Common and was built in 1985. In 1941 Greenham Common was requisitioned by the Air Ministry as a satellite airfield for RAF Aldermaston and in 1943 the airfield became a United States Army Air Force base. It then reverted to the RAF in 1945 before being decommissioned in 1947.

The Wing Headquarters building of the former Greenham Common airbase was constructed as part of the Cold War redevelopment of the base to accommodate cruise missiles. Then in 1992 the airbase was closed and was purchased by the Greenham Common Community Trust in 1997. It became a listed building in 2014.

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