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Kingswood House
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Seeley Drive, Kingswood Estate, Dulwich, London, SE21 8QR
Free parking and disabled access
Telephone:
020 7525 6441
Website:
www.kingswoodcommunity.org.uk/
email:
janice.francois@southwark.gov.uk
ruth.baidoo@southwark.gov.uk
Available for:
* Conferences
* Meetings
* Exhibitions
* Course venue
* Parties and receptions
* Themed evenings
* Weddings
A history of the building and gates
Both Nationally Listed: Grade II on 27/09/72
HOUSE
NGR: TQ3344671909 (Seeley Drive)
Large villa, now library and community centre. 1892, with additions of 1897; incorporating parts of an C18 house (not externally visible). By HV Lanchester. For L. J. Johnstone, founder of Bovril. Coursed stone and ashlar dressings. Red tile roof.
EXTERIOR: Rambling baronialised Victorian Tudor exterior with crowstepped gables, battlemented parapet, half hexagonal angle towers, tall jointed chimney stacks, a tower with look out post, and a profusion of strap-work. 2 main storeys, irregular bays.
Crow-stepped porch with door recessed under 4-centred arch. 1st-floor oriel window in bay to right of entrance. Other windows have mullions some with transoms, those on ground-floor of left bay-window with delicate Renaissance style panels. Terrace and extensions to rear in early C20 Neoclassical Revival style, the east one domed.
INTERIOR: Inside the tall Great Hall (now a public library) on ground floor has a gallery over an inglenook fireplace. Other panelled rooms; C18 fireplace in main front room. Upper floor on 2 levels divided by an E-W corridor.
GATES
NGR: TQ3354971817 (Corner of Lyall Avenue)
Entrance gates to Kingswood House. Late C19. Decorative double wrought-iron gates (damaged) between banded, rusticated stone main posts with splayed wings to either side with semicircular-headed openings formerly containing smaller iron gates. Moulded cornice, missing in parts.
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