Cotswolds bus shelter recognised as post-war heritage

Summarised from Gloucestershire Live's report · Updated 10 Oct, 07:31 · Archive

A bus shelter in Hillesley, Gloucestershire, has been given Grade II listed status as a surviving example of Festival of Britain architecture.

A bus shelter serving the village of Hillesley, Gloucestershire, has been awarded Grade II listed status in recognition of its post-war heritage. The shelter was designed by world-renowned Modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin and built in 1952 as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations, a government-sponsored event held in the summer of 1951 promoting British excellence in design, technology, industry, architecture, science and the arts.

Historic England granted the listing on the advice of its Listing Adviser Rachel Williams, who noted that the shelter is one of only four Festival of Britain bus shelters thought to survive in England. Two of these are in Gloucestershire: the Hillesley shelter and another in Farmington, near Bourton-on-the-Water, which received Grade II listed status in 2008. The Hillesley shelter serves the Y8 service, the only bus route serving the village of around 600 people.

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In this story: Hillesley · Gloucestershire · Berthold Lubetkin · Historic England · Farmington · Wotton-under-Edge

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