17/10/2026
We’re pleased to celebrate that Berthold Lubetkin’s Festival of Britain bus shelter in Hillesley, Gloucestershire, has just been designated Grade II by DCMS, following a recent listing application by the C20 the Twentieth century Society. Berthold Lubetkin lived near Hillesley and this is the the 28th Lubetkin building on the national register of historic buildings.
He had relocated to the Gloucestershire countryside in 1939 and volunteered his services to the Parish Council for the small shelter project. The ‘little monument’ in traditional Cotswold materials and methods, but with ‘whimsicality cast to the wind’, represents an idiosyncratic but characteristically detailed departure for Lubetkin, the leading figure of the Modern Movement in England.
We’re pleased to announce that Berthold Lubetkin’s Festival of Britain bus shelter in Hillesley, Gloucestershire, has just been designated Grade II by DCMS, following a recent listing application by the Society.
