Description

TQ 3877 ROMNEY ROAD

26/378 Devonport House
(including Nos 66-68
(consec) King William
Walk)

II GV

Includes Nos 66-68 (consecutive), King William Walk.
Nurses' home. 1926-9 by Sir Edwin Cooper, incorporating part of Boys' Hospital of
1783 (Nos 66-68 King William Walk) as rear wing. English bond reddish brown brick
with Portland.stone dressings; hipped Roman tile roof; brick stacks with moulded
stone capping. Plan has long east-west range, facing Romney Road, with 2 projecting
wings to south including 1783 wing to west. Wrennaissance style. 3 storeys and
attic; 24-window range with stone plat band above, rusticated ground floor and stone
cill bands to ground and first-floor windows. Giant order of 2 Doric columns to
recessed central bay set above semicircular arched entrance flanked by blind oculi;
flanking bays have garlanded stone oculi over 24-pane sashes set in bracketed
pedimented stone architraves with flaming urns on bracketed balustrades set above
panelled double doors in bolection-moulded stone architraves. Ground-floor 20-pane
sashes, first-floor 15-pane sashes and second-floor 12-pane sashes set in
square-headed stone architraves to main 8-window ranges with similar garlanded oculi
and pedimented first-floor windows to each outer bay; pedimented dormers with
12-pane sashes. Other elevations similar in style; rear of central entrance bay has
lugged bolection-moulded architrave to second-floor window and pedimented
first-floor window with balcony and urns set over similar rusticated doorway; 1783
wing, facing King William Walk, of 3 storeys and 8 x 3 bays with first and
second-floor windows (some retaining gauged brick arches over sashes with glazing
bars) set in recessed semicircular arches with stone impost courses and with
dentilled cornice. Interior: includes marble vestibule with pilasters,
commemorative plaque, dentilled cornice and neo-classical style plaster ceiling;
fine panelled boardroom with carved overmantel, marble fireplace and neo-classical
style plaster ceiling; 2 late C17 style dog-leg staircases with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ3848877621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080566

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