Kennington Park House is a 10 storey tower block on Kennington Park Place in the Kennington area of Southwark, London. Constructed in 1953, the site was originally home to the Kennington Theatre, opening as the Princess of Wales' Theatre in 1898. The theatre was rebuilt in 1921 to allow for the projection of moving pictures which it was used for until 1934 when it was purchased by Oscar Deutsch's Odeon Theatre company with the intention of demolishing it and constructing an Odeon Cinema in its place. The plans never got off the drawing board and the site remained unused into the 1940s when it suffered bomb damage as a result of Luftwaffe bombing in the London Blitz. It was partly demolished in 1943 to make the building safe. In 1949, it was subject to a Compulsory Purchase Order by the loc