Description

TQ 0692 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE CHESTNUT WALK

10/46 Whiteley Village
Nos. 3 to 17 (odd)

GV II

Almshouse flats. Circa 1912 by Walter Cave. Red brick , stone dressings with
hipped plain tiled roofs. End stacks to either side of centre, ridge stacks to
wings. Symmetrical, 2 storeys 3 bay block to centre with flanking 1 storey wings
to ends projecting forward to form a courtyard in front. Central block with
quoined ends, plat band over ground floor, stone dressed mullion and transomed(angle
bay casement) windows to outer bays rising through two floors and into the roof
line. Centre divided into 3 bays by quoined piers, arched arcade across the ground
floor, upper balcony above with outer openings glazed. Staircase behind centre
arch, recessed planked doors in arched openings to ends, further doors in quoined
wings to side. Central lantern on bracket over ground floor arch.
Part of Whiteley Village, laid out on an octagonal plan, commissioned by William
Whiteley of Whiteley Stores, to provide housing for thrifty old folk.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURRZY (1971) : pp520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0933462566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26281538

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)