Brent Adult and Community Education Service (Stonebridge Centre),

1 Morland Gardens, Stonebridge, London, NW10 8DY

Ward: Stonebridge

Date: 1876

Architect: Henry Edward Kendall Jr.

Style: Victorian

Original use: Residential

Existing use: Education

Description

Architectural significance – Capacious and fine 19th Century rustic villa in

the Italianate style by Henry Edward Kendall Jr constructed in 1876.

Constructed of yellow London stock brick with red brick and stucco dressings.

Two stories with projecting gabled roofs supported by decorative bracketed

eaves to slate roofs. Three storey square entrance tower with triple round

headed windows and gabled entrance canopy. Double hung timber sash

windows. Projecting brick string courses a feature as well as half-hipped

bracketed slate roofs to windows. In 1995 an extension was added to provide

Conservation area: no

Significance score - 8

Authenticity: 2

Architectural: 2

Historical/archaeological: 2

Townscape: 2

an education centre by Chassay Architects. This is a long low building that was

designed to be subservient in nature so that the villa remained a prominent

landmark within the streetscene. It is of no special interest.

Historic significance – The Stonebridge Park estate was an ambitious

venture by Henry Edward Kendall Junior (1805-1885). It was laid out in 1876

when it was advertised as ‘three miles from Victoria Gate, Hyde Park’, and

conveniently served by a direct railway line to Broad Street (now closed). From

it remain only two houses, 1 and 2 Morland Gardens and the Bridge Park Hotel

(listed grade II). In later years it became the Services Rendered Club.

Kendall's works included schools, churches (including St John, Harrow Road,

1844), parsonages, lunatic asylums and many houses including the

remodelling of Knebworth House (1843).

Authenticity – The villa is virtually unaltered and well maintained. The 1995

extension has not spoilt the special integrity of the building.

Townscape significance – The building stands out because it is on a corner

plot and the tower a prominent feature in the streetscape.

Sources: London 3: North West, Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner,

Penguin Books, 1991; www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Edward_Kendall_Jr.