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Latitude: 51.516 / 51°30'57"N
Longitude: -0.119 / 0°7'8"W
OS Eastings: 530612
OS Northings: 181356
OS Grid: TQ306813
Mapcode National: GBR KB.FQ
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.W5F4
Plus Code: 9C3XGV8J+C9
Entry Name: 40 and 42, Kingsway
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Last Amended: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379258
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478626
ID on this website: 101379258
Location: St Giles, Camden, London, WC2B
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
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CAMDEN
TQ3081SE KINGSWAY
798-1/106/993 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.40 AND 42
(Formerly Listed as:
KINGSWAY
Nos.40 AND 42
Redland House)
GV II
Office block. 1908-9. With facade and hall by Edwin Lutyens,
and plan by Pilditch and Company. Portland stone with
rusticated ground, 1st and 2nd floor. Modified Classical
style.
6 storeys and attic. Double fronted with 3 windows.
Square-headed ground floor openings flanked by
distyle-in-antis Greek Doric order pilasters rising through
ground and 1st floor. All windows casements with leaded panes
except the ground floor which has plate glass. Left hand
entrance with head on keystone; right entrance replaced by a
window. 2nd floor windows with vertically set sidelights.
Architraved 3rd and 4th floor windows. Entablature with
modillion cornice at 5th floor level. 5th floor windows with
voussoirs and flanked by enriched pilasters carrying secondary
cornice below balustraded parapet. Pediment flanked by
chimney-stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to contain a vaulted hall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built for William Robinson, proprietor of
'The Garden'.
Listing NGR: TQ3061281356
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