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Latitude: 51.4492 / 51°26'57"N
Longitude: -0.0538 / 0°3'13"W
OS Eastings: 535333
OS Northings: 174045
OS Grid: TQ353740
Mapcode National: GBR JF.H3K
Mapcode Global: VHGR7.0TWW
Plus Code: 9C3XCWXW+MF
Entry Name: Woodville Hall, Part of Sacred Heart Convent School
Listing Date: 27 September 1972
Last Amended: 17 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385535
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470934
Location: Southwark, London, SE23
County: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Peckham Rye
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Honor Oak Park, St Augustine
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
SOUTHWARK
TQ3574SW FOREST HILL ROAD
636-1/64/351 (North side)
27/09/72 Woodville Hall, part of Sacred Heart
Convent School
(Formerly Listed as:
HONOR OAK RISE
(South side)
Woodville (part of Sacred Heart
Convent School))
II
House, now part of convent, used as school. Early C19, partly
destroyed by bomb damage and altered. Yellow brick with stucco
parapet and part of cornice in front of slate mansard roof
with dormers.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays; right side altered to
form link with later building (not included in this listing).
Centre section recessed with entrance and French window above
(former balcony missing). Left ground-floor sash window in
segmental-arched recess. Flat, gauged-brick arches to sash
windows.
INTERIOR: has a double-height stair hall, the west part of
which is semicircular in plan and contains imperial stair
rising from rectangular vestibule below. Original features of
note include: treads with brackets, wreathed handrail and
curtail steps, thin balusters, original safety gate across
upper landing; egg-and-dart cornice to entablatures topping
east walls on both levels.
Of special note are 2 low relief, plaster roundels on east
wall, that on the ground floor depicting a handmaiden washing
the feet of a mourning woman (perhaps a Homeric scene),
rendered in Neoclassical style; the 1st-floor landing, in
similar style, a shepherd admiring women (the Judgment of
Paris). Several rooms with fire surrounds in plain
Neoclassical style; Victorian additions, principally
mouldings.
Listing NGR: TQ3533374045
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