There used to be, where there is now the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, a very large and no doubt gracious house, a splendid mansion belonging to Richard J Poole King, but the company that he founded went out of business circa 1906. Kensington House was set on a rising slope of a park-like verdant lawn, surrounded by exotics and evergreens of the choicest selection, and was in the centre of a double hedgerow plantation of luxuriant elm, beech and other timber trees. Nevertheless, it was was pulled down in 1973, to make way for the PDSA. The dwelling that I saw today was in the road named after Kensington House, one in a row of fairly substantial and attractive terraced houses built in 1904, or thereabouts. It is a large house with good sized rooms, but not as large as those in the original property, that was sound as can be, but oh dear, the poor old roof has certainly see far better days – it's in a pretty dire state attributable... to lack of maintenance and my Clients must budget for it's replacement in the foreseeable future. That aside I see no reason why they should not safely proceed with their purchase..   more »