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A modern buff-brick building with dark panels and large windows above a ground-floor shop with sale signs, bicycles in front.

Market Hostel of King’s College

History of Market Hostel

According to Pevsner, the insertion of  this college residence in the central streets in 1960-2 was controversial, not least because of its Modernist style by Kenneth Capon of the Architects’ Co-Partnership

According to GW the bricks used were very expensive. They came from Belgium individually wrapped.

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