Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital
Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital, Hook Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232486
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital, Hook Road
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232486
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital, Hook Road
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital, Hook Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 20400 62704
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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