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New Kent Road, LONDON, SE1 4YS

A handsome late C18th terrace of nine houses, each of three storeys plus basement and attic in three bays (Image]), and possessing a decorative wooden doorcase (Image]). Grade II listed.

One of the end houses in this good late C18th terrace (Image]). The doorcase (Image]) and rubbed brick flat arches to the windows are the only remotely decorative elements and yet the proportions and homely brick make for a satisfying facade. Wider view: Image

Doorcase with "attached columns with foliage capitals supporting entablature with medallions and dentil cornice" and radial fanlight. Wider view: Image

This property looks as if it might have originally been the vicarage for St Andrew's church that stood just to the right of it - see Image It appears presently to be the home of a drug rehabilitation charity.

This hotel was threatened with demolition so that a new housing development could be built on the site, but planning permission was refused. There is an application to have it given "listed" status. Follow these links to find out more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/40692 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/2056

Driscoll House is a Grade II listed building on the New Kent Road. It first opened as "Ada Lewis House" in 1913, offering accommodation for working women. Later it became a hotel, the Driscoll House Hotel, and more recently a student hostel. It closed in 2007, and despite local rumours that it would be demolished, was converted and sold to a developer. See also Image (most of this information from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House )

An imposing block in a revivalist style with a brick exterior but an early example of the use of Mouchel's iron and concrete construction method. Built as a women's hostel in 1911-13. Grade II listed. Still a hostel, though not reserved for women, now run by Rest Up.

The filling station is on the corner of New Kent Road and Theobald Street. Unleaded and petrol and diesel were both advertised at 118.9 pence per litre, after a steep price rise in early 2010 (a year earlier it was around 90 pence). The filling station stands on the site of the former St Andrew's Church, Newington, which stood here from 1876-1956. The church hall remained but was demolished c 1980, following a fire. (Information supplied by James Manning).

The Recovery Chapel International (founded 2007) meets in this building in County Street.

This end of County Street is a dead-end off Harper Road. The wall on the left is the boundary of the Globe Academy - see Image On the right are light industrial premises.