Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and Attached Walls
KENTISH TOWN CENTRE, KINGSWAY COLLEGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 87, HOLMES ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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