Service Wing And Outbuildings To Kenwood House

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TQ2787SW 798-1/3/975 10/06/54

CAMDEN KENWOOD Service wing and outbuildings to Kenwood House

GV II*

Service wing & outbuildings, now partly converted to a restaurant. 1793-1795. By George Saunders, restored 1959. Multi-coloured stock brick. Hipped, slated roofs with wooden, bracketed eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: irregular range with large central, rectangular kitchen with splayed corners flanked by diagonal wings on main south facade screened by a loggia. Loggia of wooden Doric columns supporting an entablature. Kitchen 3 storeys 3 windows. Entrance under loggia; round-arched doorway with patterned fanlight and double panelled doors. Gauged yellow brick flat arches to recessed sash windows. Roof with rectangular louvred lantern surmounted by a dome. Right hand wing, 2 storeys 5 windows (centre blind) and 1 window splayed return. Entrances under loggia; to the left a square-headed doorway with brick flat arch and partly glazed door, to the right 2 wooden carriage doors with segmental arch overlight. Left hand wing similar. East facade of brown brick with brick band at 1st floor level. 2 storeys 9 windows, the centre 3 slightly projecting. Gauged yellow brick flat arches to recessed sashes. INTERIORS: plain and some altered. (Survey of London: Vol. XVII: London: -1936: 114-132).

Listing NGR: TQ2713087466