Villa on South West Corner of St Michaels Convent (Formerly Known As Park Hill) is a Grade II* listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Villa.
Villa on South West Corner of St Michaels Convent (Formerly Known As Park Hill)
- WRENN ID
- gilded-mortar-auburn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Villa on South West Corner of St Michaels Convent (Formerly Known As Park Hill), Streatham Common North, Sw16
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 711
- Coordinates
- 51.42422, -0.11672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a stucco villa built around 1835, located on the southwest corner of St Michael's Convent, formerly known as Park Hill. The villa has two storeys and a sunk basement, featuring five windows on the south entrance front. It is adorned with pilasters and entablatures on both floors. The sash windows have moulded architraves with cornices above; the ground floor windows are supported by console brackets with Greek fret friezes and vermiculate aprons. There is a prostyle porch with paired Ionic columns, which is now glazed in. A classical porte-cochere was added in 1880.
The west front consists of three bays, with a wide central bow that has screens of Ionic order on the ground floor and near-Byzantine order with square columns above. There is balustrading between the columns and swags over the first-floor windows. The long ground floor casements are accompanied by two flights of marble steps flanked by naturalistic crouching lions, and there is a patterned wrought-iron grille for the basement.
Inside, the villa features a rich interior with original plaster cornices decorated with Greek and classical ornamental motifs, as well as enriched ceilings and woodwork. The hall includes a screen of two Doric columns, while the stairwell has a curved staircase with a cast iron patterned balustrade. The first floor is surrounded by a screen of square columns, topped with a light featuring patterned coving and a band of figures above the first-floor entablature. The inner hall has pilaster bay divisions and an entablature, similar to the main west room, which includes an Ionic screen to the bow and a carved marble fireplace.
Local climate
Villa on South West Corner of St Michaels Convent (Formerly Known As Park Hill) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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