Description

CAMDEN

TQ2585NW KIDDERPORE AVENUE
798-1/24/982 (North side)
16/01/96 The Maynard Wing, King's College

GV II

Student residences. 1889. By Robert Falconer Macdonald. Red
brick with rubbed brick and Roman cement dressings. Tiled
hipped roofs with gabled dormers to south front, tall brick
chimney-stacks and fishscale tiled clock tower.
2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. William and Mary style.
Symmetrical design. 20 windows. Entrance in double gabled
central, recessed bay with pedimented Ionic surround to
round-arched doorway approached by curved double steps with
stone balustrade. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes
with shaped rubbed brick aprons and continuous sill bands;
paired above entrance and grouped in gabled flanking and outer
bays. Heavy modillion eaves cornice carries up around gables,
the flanking and outer bays containing Venetian attic windows.
North front plainer but with similar brick detailing and
central 3-storey projecting polygonal bay.
INTERIOR: plain with rooms arranged off long corridors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a result of an open competition to
provide expanded accommodation for Westfield College. The
brief called for a scheme "showing economy with good effect".

Listing NGR: TQ2537085846

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086652

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)