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Chapman Taylor's po-mo business park HQ listed

By 2019-04-03T06:00:00

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Source: Elain Harwood

Pearl Assurance building near Peterborough was under threat

Chapman Taylor’s striking post-modern Pearl Assurance HQ has been listed after the Twentieth Century Society stepped in to see off a threat.

The building, on a pioneering business park outside Peterborough, has been given grade II status. 

The society also managed to get protection for 25 acres of landscaped grounds and grade II* listing for a war memorial which was designed by George James Frampton RA and relocated from the company’s London offices.

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