10, Kennington Park Place

This is a house and former coach house, built in stages between 1805 and 1820. The north-western section dates from between 1805 and 1810, with a later addition to the south-east around 1820 and an attached former coach house of the same date. The building is stuccoed with a slate roof, and a mansard roof to the south-eastern part.

The north-western part is three storeys high, with a semi-basement and two windows wide. It features a parapet, bands marking the floors, and end pilasters with an incised Greek key design. The second floor has eight-pane sashes set horizontally within moulded architraves. The first floor has tripartite sashes of 20 panes, with a cornice and bracket. The ground floor has taller tripartite sashes with 25 panes, and a cast iron balconette with a trellis pattern. A sixteen-pane sash is present on the left side of the semi-basement, along with one blank opening. The rear elevation displays a parapet and twelve-pane sashes.

The south-eastern part is set back, and is three storeys with a lower height, incorporating a matching parapet and pilaster with a Greek key design. It retains one original window but also features a narrower later 19th-century replacement to the left. The second floor has a round-headed blank opening and a narrow later 19th-century sash without glazing bars. The first floor has a tripartite sash of 16 panes, alongside a narrower later 19th-century sash without glazing bars on the left side. The grand entrance on the ground floor is sheltered by a wooden canopy with wooden Doric half-columns. The doorcase includes a semi-circular fanlight, pilasters, and an original door with six octagonal panels, the two upper panels glazed. Two curved flights of stone steps lead to the entrance, featuring blank niches and elaborate cast iron balustrading, a blank round-headed arch with impost blocks and wreaths. The rear elevation displays a full-height curved bow of three bays, with a parapet, panels above the top-floor windows, and sash windows. The attached former coach house, to the south-east, is two storeys high and has a deep cornice, pilasters, a 16-pane sash to the first floor, and double doors and a pedestrian entrance to the ground floor.

The interior of the building has not been inspected. The street was initially named St Agnes Place and the houses were constructed between 1805 and 1810. The north-western section is depicted on Horwood’s map of 1814. A print in "The Illustrated London News" from 1857 shows the complete building, including the former coach house, in the context of the Hustings at Kennington.