Longden & Venables was an architectural partnership formed by Reginald Thelwall Longden (1879-1941) and William James Venables (1892-1958) in the early 1920s. They had offices in St. Edward Street, Leek, Staffordshire, England and in Stafford Street, Hanley, Staffordshire, England.
Photographs of Leek Golf Club club house and 'Deepdale', Birchall in Leek designed by them is illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1925 (p.12); A photograph of a bungalow in Birchall, Leek, designed by them is illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1926 (p.30); photographs and ground-floor plan of a house at Alsager, Cheshire, and of the hall fireplace at a house at Newcastle, Staffordshire, designed by them is illustrated in 'Decorative Art' 1927 (pp.36, 55); photograph of a house on the Birchall Estate in Leek, Staffordshire, and a kitchen in an architect's house, designed by Longden & Venables are illustrated in 'Decorative Art' 1931 (pp.14, 64); and a photograph and plan of a house at Newcastle, Staffordshire, designed by Longden & Venables is illustrated in 'Decorative Art' 1933 (p.23).
The firm went into receivership in 1935, however, it would seem that the business continued for at least another three years.