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Latitude: 51.517 / 51°31'1"N
Longitude: -0.1194 / 0°7'9"W
OS Eastings: 530584
OS Northings: 181462
OS Grid: TQ305814
Mapcode National: GBR KB.CC
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.W47D
Plus Code: 9C3XGV8J+Q6
Entry Name: Africa House
Listing Date: 11 December 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379261
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478629
ID on this website: 101379261
Location: Holborn, Camden, London, WC2A
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
Tagged with: House
TQ3081 SE
798-1/106/997
CAMDEN
KINGSWAY (east side)
Nos. 64-78 (even)
Africa House
11/12/96
GV
II
Includes: Nos. 1-17 (ODD) GATE STREET.
Large office block with shops at ground floor. 1921-2. By Trehearne and Norman. Portland stone faced steel frame. Six storeys and two storey set back attic. Nine windows. Double height fluted Doric screen, with inset shops and bank, flanks a round-arched triumphal arch style entrance inscribed "Africa House" and surmounted by lions couchant. Upper storeys set back with central distyle-in-antis screen rising from third to fifth floor; metal-framed windows, fifth floor with Greek scroll aprons and enrichment to heads of bays suggesting pilasters. Entablature with deep mutule cornice surmounted by a pediment of carved figures and animals. Plain attic storeys with cornice and blocking course having a central antefixa. Return to Twyford Place continues the design with a long screen.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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