The Maynard Wing, Kings College
THE MAYNARD WING, KINGS COLLEGE, KIDDERPORE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379251
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Maynard Wing, Kings College
- Statutory Address:
- THE MAYNARD WING, KINGS COLLEGE, KIDDERPORE AVENUE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379251
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Maynard Wing, Kings College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MAYNARD WING, KINGS COLLEGE, KIDDERPORE AVENUE
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:
- THE MAYNARD WING, KINGS COLLEGE, KIDDERPORE AVENUE
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 25370 85846
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2585NW KIDDERPORE AVENUE
798-1/24/982 (North side)
16/01/96 The Maynard Wing, King's College
GV II
Student residences. 1889. By Robert Falconer Macdonald. Red
brick with rubbed brick and Roman cement dressings. Tiled
hipped roofs with gabled dormers to south front, tall brick
chimney-stacks and fishscale tiled clock tower.
2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. William and Mary style.
Symmetrical design. 20 windows. Entrance in double gabled
central, recessed bay with pedimented Ionic surround to
round-arched doorway approached by curved double steps with
stone balustrade. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes
with shaped rubbed brick aprons and continuous sill bands;
paired above entrance and grouped in gabled flanking and outer
bays. Heavy modillion eaves cornice carries up around gables,
the flanking and outer bays containing Venetian attic windows.
North front plainer but with similar brick detailing and
central 3-storey projecting polygonal bay.
INTERIOR: plain with rooms arranged off long corridors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a result of an open competition to
provide expanded accommodation for Westfield College. The
brief called for a scheme "showing economy with good effect".
Listing NGR: TQ2537085846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478619
- 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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