Description

The following building shall be added to the list:

EPSOM HOOK ROAD
TQ 2062
(east side, off)
20/311
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 2 wings forming a
"V". One storey with partial attic; 7-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 3-light small-pane casement window; barge
boards; tile-hung and louvred ridge cupola with ogee cap and finial. Wings: bay
nearest centre projects and 3rd bay also, as a canted bay window; glass-roofed
verandah between the 2 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 8 original villas at this, the first villa-style
institution for epileptics 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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526016

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