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| English Heritage Reference: | 425997 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 249-/7/10034 |
| Property: | COBDEN WORKING MEN'S CLUB 170 AND 172 |
| Street: | KENSAL ROAD , W10 |
| Date: | 09/05/1995 |
| Grade: | II |
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| Description: | Working Men's Club1880 by Pennington and Brigden. Grey brick with red brick dressings and ground floor, on Portland stone plinth. Three storeys high, with staircase set either side of bars on two lower floors, with double-height theatre above extending into projecting gable. Asymmetrical composition of regular three-bay centre, with single window for door and staircase to either side, and a narrow two-bay extension to left over carriageway and containing manager's accommodation. Metal casements to upper windows, those to theatre with round-arched tracery and to staircases with margin lights containing coloured glass; arched windows to ground floor with toplights. C20 doors under rounded openings with gauged brick-work and toplights. Parapet and gable with stone arcaded edging. Band over first floor inscribed 'COBDEN WORKING MEN'S CLUB AND INSTITUTE'. Interior has turned baluster staircases to either side of public rooms for full height of building. Ground floor bar retains original fireplace and surround, with cast-iron columns and cornices hidden false ceiling. First floor has similar columns and corniced boxed in and obscured. Second floor theatre of five bays, with female heads supporting each timber truss. Stage at north end in panelled surround. Side walls arcaded, with pairs of double doors with coloured margin lights at either side. Contemporary pay box or bat at eastern entrance. Included as the earliest known surviving purpose-built working men's club, retaining many original features, particularly in having a contemporary theatre or song room on its upper level. |
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