Description

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TQ 2062
20/311

EPSOM
HOOK ROAD (east side, off)
Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital

GV
II

Hospital villa accommodation. 1901 by Clifford Smith for London County Council; altered red brick; plain tile roof. Half-butterfly plan, the two wings forming a "V". One storey with partial attic; seven-bay wings meeting at gabled entrance bay. In Arts and Crafts style. Windows are small-pane sashes, some sashes with replacement single-pane glazing; and have flat brick arches with keystones; doors have vertical glazed panels. Entrance bay has wide, keyed, segmental archway leading to recessed double door, with upper part small-paned, small-pane overlight and narrow side windows; gable has applied timber studs on brattished bressumer with painted, pebble-dashed panels and three-light small-pane casement window; barge boards; tile-hung and louvred ridge cupola with ogee cap and finial.

Wings: bay nearest centre projects and third bay also, as a canted bay window; glass-roofed verandah between the two projections of the right-hand wing (and probably also formerly of the left-hand wing) covering doorway; late C20 small added blocks at end of each wing not of special interest; moulded wooden gutter at eavesr raised verges with shaped ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping.

Walnut Villa was one of the eight original villas at this, the first villa-style institution for people with epilepsy in England, and together with Limewood Villa and Thorn Villa (q.q.v.) it forms a group around the cricket ground.

Listing NGR: TQ2040062704

External Links

• Wikidata Q26526016

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)