LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL

LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL, HOOK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277053
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL, HOOK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277053
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: LIMEWOOD VILLA AT ST EBBA'S HOSPITAL, HOOK ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LIMEWOOD 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 20298 62600

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:

EPSOM HOOK ROAD TQ 2062 (east side, off) 20/309 Limewood 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" and having a short central wing to rear. One storey with attics to ends and centre; 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 louvered 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, covering doorway, with another doorway nearer end; moulded wooden gutter; raised verges with moulded ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping; corniced brick stack to each, wing flanking centre, in front roof pitch. Rear: in same style having wing with hipped roof, and tall stacks rising from near eaves. Small late C20 block to right of wing not of special interest. Lime Villa was one of the 8 original villas at this, the first villa-type institution for epileptics in England, and together with Thorn Villa and Walnut Villa (q.q.v) it forms a group around the cricket ground.

Listing NGR: TQ2029862600

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Legacy System number:: 407867
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.