Kent House
KENT HOUSE, FERDINAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078340
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kent House
- Statutory Address:
- KENT HOUSE, FERDINAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078340
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Kent House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENT HOUSE, FERDINAND STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KENT HOUSE, FERDINAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28428 84359
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2884SW FERDINAND STREET
798-1/64/430 (West side)
11/02/93 Kent House
II
2 blocks of model low-cost flats and shop. 1935. By Colin
Lucas with Amyas Connell and Basil Ward. For the St Pancras
House Improvement Society (Northern Group). Reinforced
concrete frame with external walls acting as beams carrying
floors; cement skim finish.
EXTERIOR: each block of 5 storeys with roof terrace. Front
elevations have horizontally set metal frame casement windows:
2 bays with vertically stacked balconies, having metal grid
balustrades similar to the roof terrace. Access towers to rear
allow each tenant to step directly off the vertical
circulation on to his own entrance balcony. Block fronting
Ferdinand Street has entrance formed by 2 ground floor bays of
piloti closed off by later geometrically patterned iron gates.
To left, a projecting single storey shop.
INTERIORS: have 2 flats per floor in each block with logically
designed accommodation; no rooms open off one another.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the staircase access, room layouts, generous
useable balconies and total use of electricity for servicing
put Kent House at the forefront of contemporary flat design
with the quality of detailing expected from a private
commission. The flats are a successful early example of Modern
Movement commitment to social housing in this country and were
Connell, Ward and Lucas's only commission of this type.
Listing NGR: TQ2842884359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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