Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1586 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Charles E. Dowse, architect
Covering Dates: 1934-1981
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Records of projects undertaken for Slough Estates Ltd. (Ref: D/X 1586/1/1-1586/1/8)
- Records of projects undertaken for Stoke Poges Estate, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire (Ref: D/X 1586/2/1-3)
- Plans produced while studying at Oxford (Ref: D/X 1586/4-1586 /6)
- Mid-Tyne Technical College (Ref: D/X 1586/9/1-2)
- Horden Special Day School (Ref: D/X 1586/10/1-3)
- Wolsingham Secondary School (Ref: D/X 1586/11/1-4)
- Wolsingham Grammar Technical School (Ref: D/X 1586/12/1-2)
- Ryton County Secondary Modern School (Ref: D/X 1586/13/1-5)
- Seaham Branch Library (Ref: D/X 1586/14/1-15)
- Peterlee Grammar Technical School (Ref: D/X 1586/16/1-4)
- Records relating to private commissions (Ref: D/X 1586/17)
- 10 Chester Street, Houghton-le-Spring (Ref: D/X 1586/18/1-21)
- 14 Meadow Terrace, Herrington Burn (Ref: D/X 1586/22/1-23)
- Bungalow, Sacriston Lane, Witton Gilbert (Ref: D/X 1586/24/1-6)
- 32 Sherburn Road, Durham (Ref: D/X 1586/25/1-1586 /26)
- Durham Amateur Rowing Club boathouse, Racecourse, Durham (Ref: D/X 1586 /27/1-1586/27/13)
- 'Ravensgarth' , Sacriston Lane, Witton Gilbert (Ref: D/X 1586/28/1-6)
- Aykley Heads Police Headquarters, Durham (Ref: D/X 1586/29/1-19)
- 10 Newlands Road, Belmont (Ref: D/X 1586/30/1-1586 /33)
- 'Freshwinds' , Shincliffe Bank Top (Ref: D/X 1586/34/1-4)
- St. Mary's Church, Shincliffe (Ref: D/X 1586 /35/1-8)
Catalogue Description
Records given:17 April 2007 Acc: 3363(D)
Records of Charles Dowse, architect
The work of Charles E. Dowse represented in this collection spans almost fifty years. His earliest work, producing drawings of 'model' factories for the Slough-based surveyor, W.H.L. Price, dates from 1934, when he may have been an apprentice draughtsman, as he did not seek a qualification as an architect until after 1939, the latest date for which we have W.H.L. Price's drawings in this collection.
Some of his student work is preserved in this collection, and we know from one of these plans that he took his final examinations at the Oxford School of Architecture in December 1946. There is then a gap of almost four years before he surfaces again, now employed in the County Architect's Department of Durham County Council, where his initials 'CED' appear on plans attributed to the County Architect, G.R. Clayton, as having either drawn or checked the drawings, until 1959. It is clear from the records in this collection that Charles Dowse was also accepting private commissions from at least January 1956, whilst still working for the County Council, but it is not clear when he left the Council to set up business entirely on his own account, but plans bearing the business address of 2 St. Mary's Close, Shincliffe, first appear in 1964.
The latest project records surviving in this collection date from 1982.
Drawings produced while employed by W.H.L. Price, surveyor, Slough
Catalogue Contents
Records of projects undertaken whilst working for Durham County Council
Billingham College of Further Education