{"id":19331,"date":"2018-06-19T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:50:11","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-champions-of-sloughs-iconic-horlicks-building-lose-fight-for-listed-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19331","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Champions of Slough\u2019s iconic Horlicks building lose fight for listed status"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"building\"<\/a>The campaign to secure the listing of Slough\u2019s Horlicks building – its \u2018iconic factory\u2019 – has been unsuccessful, reports The Slough Observer<\/em>.<\/h3>\n
image:\u00a0Chris Allen\u00a0\/\u00a0Horlicks Factory\u00a0CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/h6>\n

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The Slough Observer<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

Matthew Taylor, 42, an architect of Queens Road, Slough, founded the Preserve Slough\u2019s Horlicks Factory campaign, to have landmark factory declared a listed building by Historic England. Mr Taylor founded the campaign after news that the building had been earmarked for possible development into housing.<\/p>\n

Mr Taylor said: \u2018A lot of prominent buildings in Slough have vanished over the years \u2013 like the Slough Library. And I realised they will keep disappearing if I don\u2019t do something about it, so I set up the campaign to try and get the Horlicks factory listed.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, in a detailed report published on Wednesday, Historic England decided against listing the building. They did, however, agree to declare the war memorial on the Horlicks Factory grounds a listed structure. While Historic England agreed that the factory had some \u2018good quality detailing\u2019 they said the overall design was too influenced by an earlier factory in America. They also felt the design was \u2018old-fashioned\u2019 for its time period and showed no signs of unusual innovation, and that a number of later extensions and upgrades had diluted the building\u2019s character.<\/p>\n

The inspector concluded: \u2018The Horlicks Factory is impressive in its scale, and a local landmark, and has some fine interiors, but in architectural, technological, process and historic terms in a national context it does not meet the criteria for statutory listing.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr Taylor said: \u2018As an architect, I do understand that they have their procedures to follow \u2013 but there does seem to be quite a heavy focus on the lack of innovation, which is a big part of their conclusion. The building is an important example of Slough\u2019s industrial past, and being close to the railway, it was a sign for many workers that they were home.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The campaign to secure the listing of Slough\u2019s Horlicks building – its \u2018iconic factory\u2019 – has been unsuccessful, reports The Slough Observer. image:\u00a0Chris Allen\u00a0\/\u00a0Horlicks Factory\u00a0CC BY-SA 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}