40 AND 42, KINGSWAY is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Office block. 8 related planning applications.
40 AND 42, KINGSWAY
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-nave-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Office block
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ3081SE KINGSWAY 798-1/106/993 (East side) 14/05/74 Nos.40 AND 42 (Formerly Listed as: KINGSWAY Nos.40 AND 42 Redland House)
GV II
Office block. 1908-9. With facade and hall by Edwin Lutyens, and plan by Pilditch and Company. Portland stone with rusticated ground, 1st and 2nd floor. Modified Classical style. 6 storeys and attic. Double fronted with 3 windows. Square-headed ground floor openings flanked by distyle-in-antis Greek Doric order pilasters rising through ground and 1st floor. All windows casements with leaded panes except the ground floor which has plate glass. Left hand entrance with head on keystone; right entrance replaced by a window. 2nd floor windows with vertically set sidelights. Architraved 3rd and 4th floor windows. Entablature with modillion cornice at 5th floor level. 5th floor windows with voussoirs and flanked by enriched pilasters carrying secondary cornice below balustraded parapet. Pediment flanked by chimney-stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to contain a vaulted hall. HISTORICAL NOTE: built for William Robinson, proprietor of 'The Garden'.
Listing NGR: TQ3061281356
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