Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3177 KENNINGTON PARK PLACE
636-1/9/453 (North side)
27/09/72 The Bishop's House

GV II

Bishop's house, now day nursery. 1895. By Norman Shaw. For the
Bishop of Rochester. Red brick with stone dressings in Queen
Anne style with high pitched, swept tiled roof with deep,
coved eaves and segment-headed dormers.
2 storeys, attic and basement, 6 bays to street front. 8-bay
left return has entrance in 3-bay centre section, with stone
architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice and segmental pediment.
Main windows are long with timber mullions and transoms and
flat, gauged-brick arches and keystones, those on ground floor
with blind boxes and those to basement segmental-headed.
1st-floor sill band.
To the rear, the former chapel has large lunette windows with
leaded lights and keystones.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3154577978

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665404

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