Numbers 125-165 and Attached Railings and Blind Boxes

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TQ3178 KENNINGTON PARK ROAD 636-1/7/456 (East side) 27/09/72 Nos.125-165 (Odd) and attached railings and blind boxes (Formerly Listed as: KENNINGTON PARK ROAD (East side) Nos.87-95, 97A, 97B, 97C, 99-121, 125-165 (odd))

GV II

Terrace of 21 houses. Late C18. Brown and yellow stock brick, some with stucco or red brick dressings; No.147 painted; Nos 131-3 & 149 painted at ground floor; No.129 stucco ground floor; most basements stuccoed. Slate or tiled roofs behind brick parapets, except No.125 which has stucco cornice and blocking course. All but Nos 135 & 137 with mansards with dormers. War damage has been repaired and some restoration and later alterations carried out. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, most with attics (except No.165 which is 4 storeys and basement), 2 bays each with 2 windows and door to ground floor; No.125 with 2-storey, 2-bay extension at left; Nos 131-137 with 2-storey, 1-bay entrance extensions, to left (Nos 131, 135), right (Nos 133, 137). Round-arched doors in round-arched recesses, Nos 125, 127, 131, 139-145, 151, 153 & 157 with decorative fanlights. No.125: doorcase with reeded, attached 3/4 Tuscan columns, reeded cornice head, original door; Nos 127 & 133: stucco Gibbs surround with vermiculated blocks to door with moulded cornice head, No.127 also with pilaster jambs; Nos 129 & 133 with wooden pilaster jambs to door with moulded cornice head; No.131 with double door under decorated segmental fanlight with narrow, reeded quadrant pilasters and cornice head and impost blocks with anthemion mouldings; Nos 135 & 137 with plain doorways with stucco imposts and doors with cornice heads, that to No.137 original; Nos 139, 141 & 151 with doors with moulded cornices in stucco surround with keystone; No.143: door in stucco surround with fluted pilaster jambs and cornice head; No.147 with stucco Gibbs surround to door with cornice head and imposts; Nos 149, 161 & 163: doors with moulded cornice heads, that to 163 with fluted pilaster jambs; Nos 153-159: doors with detached, reeded columns and moulded cornice heads; No.165: door with damaged stucco architrave, plain jambs and cornice head.

Windows with flat, gauged-brick arches are sashes to all but Nos 127 & 133 which are casements, and Nos 105-107 which have modern glazing. Glazing bars to: Nos 125, 129, 131, 139, 147, 151, 153 & 165. No.125 has round-arched windows in round-arched recesses; Nos 131 & 133 have shallow segmental, gauged-brick arches to 1st- and 2nd-floor windows. Stucco sill bands to 1st floor; 2nd-floor stucco sill band to No.127; moulded modillion cornice above 2nd floor to No.165. Original decorative Victorian blind boxes (c1850) to No.165 ground, 1st and 2nd-floor windows and No.143 ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area and/or dividing railings, some original.

Listing NGR: TQ3151278099

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