John Frederick Dodd LRIBA (1872 – 13 July 1939) was an architect based in

Long Eaton Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, just north of the River Trent, about south-west of Nottingham and some 8½ miles (13.7 km) south-east of Derby. The town population was 37,760 at the 2011 census. It has ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

Architectural career

He was educated at Nottingham School of Art and University College, Nottingham where he achieved a First Class in Building Construction Elementary in the Government Science Examinations in 1891. He was articled to John Sheldon in Long Eaton from 1887 to 1892 and remained as his assistant until he became assistant to Ernest Reginald Ridgway in 1893. He started an independent practice in 1899 in Prince Street, Long Eaton and was later based in Parr's Bank Buildings, Long Eaton. He was appointed LRIBA in 1911. In 1937 he entered into partnership with one of his employees, William Wilcox, and formed the company of Dodd and Wilcox.

Personal life

He was born in 1872 in Long Eaton, the son of John Edmund Dodd (1834-1894) and Orelie (1836-1918). He married Gertrude Ellen Booth (1878-1966) on 23 Jun 1896 in Shardlow, Derbyshire. They had two children. * Claire Bernice Dodd (1897-1898) * Grace Isabel Muriel Dodd (1902-1974) He died on 13 July 1939 at his home 2 Waverley Street, Long Eaton, Derbyshire and left an estate valued at £4,361 ().

Works

*Phoenix Mill, Nottingham Road, Long Eaton 1909 *Empire Cinema, 55 High Street, Long Eaton 1919-20 *New Palace Theatre, 49 Market Place, Long Eaton 1913 (later Screen Cinema) *Zingari Club, Long Eaton 1930 (extensions) *Offices for the Midland Counties’ Trading Association, West Gate, Long Eaton 1933 *House, Foster Avenue, Beeston 1935-36 *House, 26 Hallams Lane, 1935-36 *House, 6 Hallams Lane, 1935-36 *House for Mrs M Baker, Barratt Lane, Attenborough 1935-36 *Pair of cottages, Pasture Lane, 1936 *Bungalow, Long Lane, Attenborough 1936 *Pair of cottages, Brickyard Lane 1936 *House, 18 Barratt Lane, Attenborough 1936 *Layout of streets on the Toton Farm Estate 1936 *Seventeen pairs of houses, Stapleford Lane, 1936 *Pair of houses, 8-10 Baskin Lane, 1936 *House, 10 Hallams Lane 1936-37 *Two pairs of houses, 237-239 and 241-243 Bye Pass Road, Chilwell 1936-37 *Eight pairs of houses, Carfield Avenue, 1837 *Home Brewery Company Inn, Nottingham Road, Long Eaton 1937 *Stores and Warehouse for the Co-operative Society, Nottingham Road, Long Eaton 1937 *House, 20 Hallams Lane, 1937 *Co-operative Society Shops, Queens Road West, 1937-38 *Eight pairs of cottages, Cornfield Avenue, 1937-39 *Detached house, 20 Barratt Lane, Attenborough 1937-38 *Drury Almshouses, Chilwell. 1937-38 (rebuilding) *House. 25 Beeston Fields Drive 1937-38 *Co-operative Society Shop, Cator Lane, Chilwell 1937-38 *Twenty six houses, Whiting Avenue and Erewash Grove, Chilwell 1938 *Six pairs of houses, Woodland Grove, Chilwell 1938-39 *The Old Cross Dyeworks, West End Street, Stapleford 1938-39 (extensions) *The Hemlock Joinery Company, Hickings Lane, Stapleford 1938-39 (additions to workshops and new offices) *Conversion of building to shop, 141 Derby Road, Stapleford 1938-39 *Service Garage, Derby Road, Bramcote 1939 *Factory for Steigler, Byepass Road, Chilwell 1939 *Two pairs of houses, Erewash Grove, Toton 1939-40 *Detached house, Ilkeston Road, Stapleford for Miss Aiken. 1939-40

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodd, John Frederick 1872 births 1939 deaths British architects People from Long Eaton Alumni of Nottingham School of Art Alumni of the University of Nottingham