Everyman Muswell Hill

George Coles built it in 1935–6 for the Muswell Hill and Harlesden Property Company, of which Oscar Deutsch of Odeon Cinemas was a director: red brick, with the cinema facade clad in black and cream faience tiles and the name ODEON in neon affixed to the parapet. The building was pushed onto Fortis Green Road because members of the church opposite opposed the prominent corner site originally intended, and the facade was deliberately kept low-key as a result. Historic England's assessment sets the interior beside the New Victoria in Westminster as a demonstration of the influence of German expressionism in British cinema design. The auditorium has a central laylight of separate small lights designed to resemble a roll of film running down to the proscenium, and the area under the balcony was subdivided into smaller screens in May 1974.