Description

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

External Links

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