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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
The great Art Deco factory of the A40: white faience, coloured tile and a sunburst over the door.
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Wallis, Gilbert and Partners built it for the Hoover Company and it opened in 1933 as their British headquarters, factory and repairs centre - one of a run of Art Deco factories the firm put along the new arterial roads out of London, designed to be read at speed from a car. The front is white faience with green and red tiling, a stepped and glazed centrepiece and Egyptian touches in the columns. Historic England's citation calls it possibly the most significant arterial road factory of its date, and one of the most attractive. Tesco bought the site in 1989 and built a supermarket behind it; the front block was converted into flats, so the outside is the visit.
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