After the widening of Biggin Street in the 1890’s one of the new buildings to be constructed on this south western side of the street was the King's Hall. This was Dover's first, purpose-built, cinema, now the gala Bingo Hall. The cinema opened on 29th October 1911. It was described in its newspaper adverts as "Dover's Palatial Picture Playhouse," the proprietors Dover’s Picture Palace Co. Ltd acquired the building and spent £8,000 making it as luxurious as possible. It has an ornate Dutch gable and despite having a narrow façade extends a long way over the vacant ground behind. Designed by architect, A H Steele and built by Hayward and Paramor, the interior was 100-feet (30.5-metres) long, 60-feet (18.3-metres) wide and 30-feet (9-metres) high, with no supporting pillars to obstruct the view. The stage was 36-feet (11-metres) deep with a proscenium 32-feet (11.6-metres) wide. Seating 800 people, the picture house had a magnificent organ and a permanent string orchestra. The building was near destroyed in a fire on the 29th of December 1937. Apart from the main entrance of the cinema, practically no part of the building escaped from the catastrophe. Keystone Cinemas Ltd, submitted plans for rebuilding the cinema to a design by Frank Verity & S Beverley. Work started in the summer that year and was completed in 1940 when the country was at War (World War II – 1939-1945). The new cinema was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for training in the use of gunnery aiming instruments. Following the War, having been acquired by the Odeon group, the building was restored and reopened as a cinema on 14 July 1947. By 1951 it had been renamed the Gaumont but in November 1960 it was closed. The following August the building reopened as a bingo hall with sessions four evenings a week.

Tall narrow early C20th building which extends to the south west behind many of the buildings on Biggin Street and there is a rear access via Queens Gardens. Though the façade has a date stone of 1911, most of the building is much later. It was re-constructed in the late 1930’s after the majority of the original building was destroyed in a large fire. The whole building is slightly recessed from those on either side of it, it is also on a smaller scale than many of the buildings surrounding it. The ground floor level is heavily inserted for its modern use as a bingo hall and retains none of the original features. There is a large overhanging fascia beneath which are two sets of large double doors set within a recessed porch area. The original moulded cornice over the former entrance to the building is still visible over the modern fascia and forms a sill to the first-floor window. The floors above are rendered and elaborately decorated, with many of the original architectural details still surviving. The render is painted cream while the decorative details are in white. At the first-floor level there is a large, centrally placed bow or rounded bay window, divided into three parts by circular plaster pilasters with moulded capitals over the surround and mullions. There is a plasterwork frieze located directly above the window, over which is a moulded cornice. The area over the roof of the window has a balustrade and forms a small balcony for the second-floor window. This is the same width as and aligns with the bay window below but is flat. It consists of a large and highly decorative Palladian window, with plaster pilasters over the surround and mullions and protruding arched window headers. There are pilasters on either side of the first and second floor windows, these have been scored to imitate large blocks and start at the cornice over the ground floor and run up the length of the façade to the cornice above the second floor, just below the roof level. This upper cornice is decoratively moulded like the other examples present across this façade and protrudes at the point where it overlies the pilasters. It forms a sill to the dormer windows which are within a large and elaborate Dutch style gable. There are two windows within this dormer with plaster pilasters on the mullions and surrounds and a date stone over (1911) within an ogee pediment. Some of this plaster detailing is badly weathered, damaged and stained, there are also some untidy modern features attached to the façade including bird repelling features, security systems, lighting and its associated wiring. The modern features present on the ground floor do not tie in with the elaborate decoration on the floors above. Overall however, the building itself appears to be structurally sound and in a good condition.

The ground floor openings are modern and consist of two sets of glazed double doors, set within a recessed porch area. The doors and their frames are painted blue to match the commercial signage. the first-floor window is a bow or rounded bay window with an elaboratively decorative surround (described above). It is divided into three segments, all of which consist of timber framed sashes, the upper parts of which are divided into multiple panes (12 in the central sash and nine in the outer two) while the lower part is a single larger pane. There is a large Palladian window at the second floor level, again with a highly decorative surround. All three parts of the window are timber sashes, with both the lower and upper parts of the sashes divided into multiple smaller panes by timber glazing bars. The central portion has 12 small panes in its lower part, and 10 in the upper part, which also has a slight arch at the top. The outer two sashes also have an arched top and consist of six small panes in both the lower and upper parts of the sash. The two windows within the dormer are also timber sashes, again divided into multiple panes. The upper parts of both are half rounded and divided into six panes while the lower parts are both rectangular with nine panes. All of the window frames are painted white and some are possibly original. There is some chips and dirt on them, but despite this all appear to be in a good condition.

Only the part of the roof immediately behind the façade was visible and there are multiple other parts of the roof which were not seen and are possibly in different materials and a different form. The part seen is in slate and consists of a steeply pitched, four-sided turret with a flat top. The large dormer takes up most of the north eastern side of the turret and the flat top has a set of decorative iron railings which look to be original. The slates all appear to be in a good condition. There is a brick stack (attached to the stack of No 50 on the northern side, is located behind this turret this also appears to be in a good condition. (1)

<1> Kent County Council, 2019, Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (Unpublished document). SKE52120.