Kensal House

1930's Modernist Grade II Listed Building, part of English Heritage designed by architect Maxwell Fry.

Location: Ladbroke Grove, London

This project consisted of the following aspects:

• Removal of existing coatings (vacuum grit blasting)
• Full conditional survey
• Concrete repairs
• Cementious render coatings
• Application of elastomeric coatings
• Application of graffiti coatings

Brief history of Kensal House:

Kensal House is one of several progressive, modernist housing schemes built in Britain in the 1930s, but unlike the Lawn Road Flats and Highpoint One, these flats were not inhabited by middle classes intellectuals. Completed in 1937, Kensal House marks the point in the story of British Modernist architecture when the social/political ideals of the early modernists come to the fore.