Kingswood House is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Villa. 7 related planning applications.
Kingswood House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-brass-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3371NW SEELEY DRIVE 636-1/78/675 (West side) 27/09/72 Kingswood House
GV II
Large villa, now library and community centre. 1892, with additions of 1897; incorporating parts of an C18 house (not externally visible). By HV Lanchester. For LJ Johnstone, founder of Bovril. Coursed stone and ashlar dressings. Red tile roof. EXTERIOR: rambling baronialised Victorian Tudor exterior with crowstepped gables, battlemented parapet, half hexagonal angle towers, tall jointed chimney stacks, a tower with look out post, and a profusion of strap-work. 2 main storeys, irregular bays. Crow-stepped porch with door recessed under 4-centred arch. 1st-floor oriel window in bay to right of entrance. Other windows have mullions some with transoms, those on ground-floor of left bay-window with delicate Renaissance style panels. Terrace and extensions to rear in early C20 Neoclassical Revival style, the east one domed. INTERIOR: inside the tall great hall (now library) on ground floor has a gallery over an inglenook fireplace. Other panelled rooms; C18 fireplace in main front room. Upper floor on 2 levels divided by an E-W corridor. Built for LJ Johnstone, founder of Bovril, for 20,000.
Listing NGR: TQ3344671909
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