Description

LANSDOWN ROAD (West side),
Springfield Villa

(Formerly listed as Wonham)

05/08/75

GV II

Detached house. Dated 1842 with C20 alterations. Possibly by James Wilson.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof with slender stacks with machicolation below cornices to ridge of porch, right and rear.
PLAN: Complex plan.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor, two-bay entrance front. Horizontal glazing bars to three/three-pane sash windows. A two storey gabled porch in the angle to the left of projecting central wing has a pierced stone finial and a dated shield to a stepped gable to the front, one first floor window over a flat-arched dripmould with block stops, sunk spandrels to a Tudor arch, double four-panel doors and an overlight with an integral lamp. The projecting central wing has a pierced stone finial to a Dutch gable of double convex curves to each side; a pierced trefoil to the apex over paired first floor windows; French windows opening onto a pierced stone balcony to the raised ground floor, and paired four/four-pane sash windows to the lower ground floor. The stringcourses rise to form dripmoulds over the upper floor windows and over paired three/three-pane sashes to a mezzanine floor to the right hand block. The left return has a similar finial and a pierced quatrefoil to a serpentine Dutch gable and paired windows. A projecting central block to the west garden front has a good swept canopy over a cast iron trellised balcony to the upper ground floor, a narrow-paned conservatory porch and a pierced stone balcony similar to that at the front.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7465666230

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673548

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