Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College And Attached Walls

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TQ2884NE CATHCART STREET 798-1/54/929 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway 07/05/96 College and attached walls

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See under: No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls HOLMES ROAD.

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TQ2884NE HOLMES ROAD 798-1/54/929 (South East side) 07/05/96 No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls

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Includes: Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls CATHCART STREET. Includes: Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls WILLES ROAD. Board school, now an Adult Education Institute. 1873-4. By ER Robson. For the School Board of London. With later additions of 1891. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and X patterning and stone dressings. Slated roofs with gables to alternating bays and wooden bellcote with fleche central to main building. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 7 bays defined by buttresses plus 2 additional bays to right. 3 storeys. Central stuccoed pointed arch entrance, with row of small arcaded lights above, and square-headed sashes to ground floor, those in right hand bay paired with stone mullions and lintel having pointed brick relieving arches. Paired 1st floor windows of transom and mullion type, with glazing bars, under pointed stone relieving arches with central colonnettes. Second floor with four separate gables, now altered and simplified, with straight-headed pairs of windows instead of lancets; between them, single sashes under shallow segmental arches with cornice and blocking course. Additions in similar style, including former infants' school of 2 storeys facing Willes Road. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high brick boundary walls on flanks towards Willes Road and Cathcart Street. HISTORICAL NOTE: an early example of a Robson Board School, illustrated in his "School Architecture". (Robson ER: School Architecture: -1874).

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TQ2884NE WILLES ROAD 798-1/54/929 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway 07/05/96 College and attached walls

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See under: No.87 Kentish Town Centre, Kingsway College and attached walls HOLMES ROAD.

Listing NGR: TQ2867084971