[1] Ace cinema is streamlined Art Deco in style, the facade featuring a central concrete sculpted design of a stylized elephant's head with trunk.

There was originally a stage 44 feet deep and six dressing rooms,[2] and the oval foyer has a sunken area that contained a café.

[1][2] Ace cinema was designed by Frank Ernest Bromige and opened as the Grosvenor Cinema on 12 October 1936, showing The Country Doctor.

[2][3] After the Harrow borough council refused an application by Odeon's parent organisation Rank to convert the cinema into a bingo hall, it was acquired by Ace, a small independent group, and on 1 October 1981 became the Ace Cinema;[4] it was closed on 6 October 1986.

[2] The building was Grade II listed on 13 March 1981 and upgraded to Grade II* on 27 January 1984, at which time it was noted as the least altered example of a late 1930s cinema in this style.