Kodak House
KODAK HOUSE, 63, KINGSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379260
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Kodak House
- Statutory Address:
- KODAK HOUSE, 63, KINGSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379260
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Kodak House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KODAK HOUSE, 63, KINGSWAY
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:
- KODAK HOUSE, 63, KINGSWAY
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 30582 81277
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081SE KINGSWAY
798-1/106/995 (West side)
08/09/71 No.63
Kodak House
II
Office block, incorporating Nos 61 & 65. c1911. By Sir John
Burnet and Partners (job architect Thomas Tait) for Kodak;
later attic storey. Built by Allen Construction Co. Steel
framed construction with Portland stone facing and bronze
spandrel panels emphasising the method of structure. Bronze
roof canopy with antefixae masks.
EXTERIOR: 6 storeys, basement and C20 attic storey. 5 window
bays to main frontage, splayed 1 window corner treatment and 7
window bays to return. Windows with post 1973 glazing;
originally 6 light casements with leaded panes. Plate glass
ground floor frontage. Central doorway with bolection moulded
surround and flanked by bronze torches. Plain stone continuous
sill at 1st floor level; square-headed recessed windows. Stone
pilasters between bays rise from 2nd floor level; they have
bases but not capitals and lead flush into the top frieze.
Coved stone cornice with band of Greek fret ornament.
INTERIOR: has good original staircases, the principal
staircase to 1st floor level of marble with bronze handrail.
Other features may remain behind partitioning.
HISTORICAL NOTE: an early example in London of an office block
treated in a straightforward manner. Although a pioneering
work of modern design it evolves from an Edwardian
Neo-Classical design, stripped of almost all ornament and with
a Beaux Arts axial plan. Burnet made a study tour of America
in preparation for this project. The detail appears to be by
Thomas Tait: despite Burnet's doubts about the lack of usual
decoration, the client liked the simplicity.
Listing NGR: TQ3058281277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478628
- 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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