Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3178 KENNINGTON PARK ROAD
636-1/7/456 (East side)
27/09/72 Nos.125-165 (Odd)
and attached railings and blind
boxes
(Formerly Listed as:
KENNINGTON PARK ROAD
(East side)
Nos.87-95, 97A, 97B,
97C, 99-121, 125-165 (odd))
GV II
Terrace of 21 houses. Late C18. Brown and yellow stock brick,
some with stucco or red brick dressings; No.147 painted; Nos
131-3 & 149 painted at ground floor; No.129 stucco ground
floor; most basements stuccoed. Slate or tiled roofs behind
brick parapets, except No.125 which has stucco cornice and
blocking course. All but Nos 135 & 137 with mansards with
dormers. War damage has been repaired and some restoration and
later alterations carried out.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, most with attics (except
No.165 which is 4 storeys and basement), 2 bays each with 2
windows and door to ground floor; No.125 with 2-storey, 2-bay
extension at left; Nos 131-137 with 2-storey, 1-bay entrance
extensions, to left (Nos 131, 135), right (Nos 133, 137).
Round-arched doors in round-arched recesses, Nos 125, 127,
131, 139-145, 151, 153 & 157 with decorative fanlights.
No.125: doorcase with reeded, attached 3/4 Tuscan columns,
reeded cornice head, original door; Nos 127 & 133: stucco
Gibbs surround with vermiculated blocks to door with moulded
cornice head, No.127 also with pilaster jambs; Nos 129 & 133
with wooden pilaster jambs to door with moulded cornice head;
No.131 with double door under decorated segmental fanlight
with narrow, reeded quadrant pilasters and cornice head and
impost blocks with anthemion mouldings; Nos 135 & 137 with
plain doorways with stucco imposts and doors with cornice
heads, that to No.137 original; Nos 139, 141 & 151 with doors
with moulded cornices in stucco surround with keystone;
No.143: door in stucco surround with fluted pilaster jambs and
cornice head; No.147 with stucco Gibbs surround to door with
cornice head and imposts; Nos 149, 161 & 163: doors with
moulded cornice heads, that to 163 with fluted pilaster jambs;
Nos 153-159: doors with detached, reeded columns and moulded
cornice heads; No.165: door with damaged stucco architrave,
plain jambs and cornice head.
Windows with flat, gauged-brick arches are sashes to all but
Nos 127 & 133 which are casements, and Nos 105-107 which have
modern glazing. Glazing bars to: Nos 125, 129, 131, 139, 147,
151, 153 & 165. No.125 has round-arched windows in
round-arched recesses; Nos 131 & 133 have shallow segmental,
gauged-brick arches to 1st- and 2nd-floor windows.
Stucco sill bands to 1st floor; 2nd-floor stucco sill band to
No.127; moulded modillion cornice above 2nd floor to No.165.
Original decorative Victorian blind boxes (c1850) to No.165
ground, 1st and 2nd-floor windows and No.143 ground-floor
windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area and/or dividing railings, some
original.
Listing NGR: TQ3151278099
