Description

CAMDEN

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

II

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

CAMDEN

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

II

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).

CAMDEN

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

II

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

Listing NGR: TQ2867084971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086552

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