KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS

KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 87, HOLMES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379136
Date first listed:: 07-May-1996
List Entry Name:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 87, HOLMES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379136
Date first listed:: 07-May-1996
List Entry Name:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 87, HOLMES ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, CATHCART STREET
Statutory Address 3:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, WILLES ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 87, HOLMES ROAD
Statutory Address:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, CATHCART STREET
Statutory Address:: KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, WILLES ROAD

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 28670 84971

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2884NE CATHCART STREET 798-1/54/929 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway 07/05/96 College and attached walls

II

See under: No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls HOLMES ROAD.

CAMDEN

TQ2884NE HOLMES ROAD 798-1/54/929 (South East side) 07/05/96 No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls

II

Includes: Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls CATHCART STREET. Includes: Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls WILLES ROAD. Board school, now an Adult Education Institute. 1873-4. By ER Robson. For the School Board of London. With later additions of 1891. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and X patterning and stone dressings. Slated roofs with gables to alternating bays and wooden bellcote with fleche central to main building. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 7 bays defined by buttresses plus 2 additional bays to right. 3 storeys. Central stuccoed pointed arch entrance, with row of small arcaded lights above, and square-headed sashes to ground floor, those in right hand bay paired with stone mullions and lintel having pointed brick relieving arches. Paired 1st floor windows of transom and mullion type, with glazing bars, under pointed stone relieving arches with central colonnettes. Second floor with four separate gables, now altered and simplified, with straight-headed pairs of windows instead of lancets; between them, single sashes under shallow segmental arches with cornice and blocking course. Additions in similar style, including former infants' school of 2 storeys facing Willes Road. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high brick boundary walls on flanks towards Willes Road and Cathcart Street. HISTORICAL NOTE: an early example of a Robson Board School, illustrated in his "School Architecture". (Robson ER: School Architecture: -1874).

CAMDEN

TQ2884NE WILLES ROAD 798-1/54/929 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway 07/05/96 College and attached walls

II

See under: No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls HOLMES ROAD.

Listing NGR: TQ2867084971

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Robson, ER , School Architecture, (1874)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.