Africa House is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1996. Office block. 43 related planning applications.
Africa House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-landing-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1996
- Type
- Office block
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ3081 SE 798-1/106/997
CAMDEN KINGSWAY (east side) Nos. 64-78 (even) Africa House
11/12/96
GV II
Includes: Nos. 1-17 (ODD) GATE STREET.
Large office block with shops at ground floor. 1921-2. By Trehearne and Norman. Portland stone faced steel frame. Six storeys and two storey set back attic. Nine windows. Double height fluted Doric screen, with inset shops and bank, flanks a round-arched triumphal arch style entrance inscribed "Africa House" and surmounted by lions couchant. Upper storeys set back with central distyle-in-antis screen rising from third to fifth floor; metal-framed windows, fifth floor with Greek scroll aprons and enrichment to heads of bays suggesting pilasters. Entablature with deep mutule cornice surmounted by a pediment of carved figures and animals. Plain attic storeys with cornice and blocking course having a central antefixa. Return to Twyford Place continues the design with a long screen.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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