40, Kingsbury

No. 40 Kingsbury is a late 18th-century front added to an older building. It stands three storeys tall and is constructed of red brick, featuring a painted wood cornice with modillions and a slate roof. The building has two windows on the front, with the first-floor windows being three-light and without glazing bars. The central entrance is an early 19th-century half-glazed door with reeded bottom panels, set within a late 18th-century doorcase that has bold carved scroll brackets and acanthus decoration. The doorcase includes enriched bed moulding that curves around brackets resting on small carved Ionic capitals, with fluted pilaster shafts of varying widths. The door is topped by a late 18th-century fanlight featuring a central double circle and a curved diamond pattern, with the doorhead adorned with a carved leaf motif. Inside, there are features dating from the 18th century. The brick front projects below the cornice and appears to be built against the original wall, which may have been timber framed. The building was altered in 1956, when a Neo-Georgian shop front with two segmental bow windows was added.