Residential apartments situated above the mall were constructed in 1973, whilst the shopping centre itself was officially opened on 3 April 1979 by Diana Dors and the then Mayor of Hammersmith.

The southern part, containing the main shopping centre, the original housing estate above it and one of the office buildings, is situated off King Street, to the south of the Hammersmith & City line railway line, and located between Lyric Square to the east and Leamore Street to the west.

In 2011, the owner of Kings Mall, St Martins Property Group sold it to Matterhorn Capital for £115 million.

When Kings Mall opened in 1980, it originally came with a 950-space four storey multi-storey car park developed by St Martins Property Group.

When St Martins Property Group sold Kings Mall in 2011 to Matterhorn Capital, plans were drawn up to demolish the multi-storey car park off Glenthorne Road along with the adjacent West 45 office building off Beadon Road, and replace it with a mixed use development by St George (part of Berkeley Group Holdings), to be called Sovereign Court.

The plans include erecting a single building with heights ranging from 4–17 storeys, plus two basement levels, to provide a smaller 700-space replacement public basement car park, new ground floor commercial floorspace and 418 new homes with 53 residential parking spaces and 460 cycle spaces.

Ashcroft Square is a local authority housing estate which consists of seven blocks of flats arranged around a central courtyard.

It was originally built in 1973 by St Martins Property Group and the dwellings were constructed using brick and concrete.