Listed Building record MWX106 - Regent Cinema, Broad Street, Lyme Regis

Cinema built in 1937 for D W Hardy (Lyme Regis Cinema Company) to the designs of William Henry Watkins. Little-altered example of a small town super-cinema on the 1930s.

Cinema built in 1937 for D W Hardy (Lyme Regis Cinema Company) to the designs of William Henry Watkins. Constructed from rendered brick it has an Art deco style double-height stadium-type auditorium (one where there is no balcony but which has stepped seating rows at the rear) behind a spacious foyer and shop. The rendered facade is in a subdued classical style, set back from the line of the adjacent buildings to form a forecourt. This is a little-altered example of a small town super-cinema on the 1930s.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 1328666 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

‘Cinema built in 1937 for D W Hardy (Lyme Regis Cinema Company) to the designs of William Henry Watkins. Constructed from rendered brick it has an Art deco style double-height stadium-type auditorium (one where there is no balcony but which has stepped seating rows at the rear) behind a spacious foyer and shop. The rendered facade is in a subdued classical style, set back from the line of the adjacent buildings to form a forecourt. This is a little-altered example of a small town super-cinema on the 1930s.’

<1> DOE (HRR), 5 Oct 2002, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset amendment 2000, 485554 (Scheduling record). SWX1253.

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