Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College And Attached Walls

This building is a board school, constructed between 1873 and 1874 and later extended in 1891. It was designed by ER Robson for the School Board of London and is now an Adult Education Institute. The school is built of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and X patterning, accented by stone dressings. It has slated roofs with gables to alternating bays, and a wooden bellcote with a fleche centrally positioned on the main building.

The symmetrical exterior facade has seven bays defined by buttresses, plus two additional bays to the right. The building is three storeys high. A central stuccoed pointed arch entrance is flanked by a row of small arcaded lights above. Ground floor windows are square-headed sashes, with the right-hand bay featuring paired windows with stone mullions and a lintel with pointed brick relieving arches. First-floor windows are of the transom and mullion type, with glazing bars, set under pointed stone relieving arches with central colonnettes. The second floor has four gables that have been altered and simplified, now with straight-headed pairs of windows instead of lancets. Single sashes are located between the gables, set under shallow segmental arches with a cornice and blocking course. Additions in a similar style include a former infants' school of two storeys facing Willes Road.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

The building is surrounded by high brick boundary walls on its flanks, bordering Willes Road and Cathcart Street. This is an early example of a Robson Board School and was illustrated in his publication, "School Architecture."