Woodville Hall, Part of Sacred Heart Convent School is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. School. 1 related planning application.

Woodville Hall, Part of Sacred Heart Convent School

WRENN ID
dusk-oriel-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Lewisham West and East Dulwich MP: Ellie Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
Woodville Hall, Part of Sacred Heart Convent School, Forest Hill Road, SE23 3LE
OS grid reference
TQ 353 740
Coordinates
51.44923, -0.05382
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodville Hall is a house that is now part of the Sacred Heart Convent School. It was built in the early 19th century and has been partly damaged by bombs and altered over time. The building is made of yellow brick and features a stucco parapet and part of a cornice in front of a slate mansard roof with dormers.

The exterior consists of two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The right side has been modified to connect with a later building that is not included in this listing. The centre section is recessed and has an entrance with a French window above, although the former balcony is missing. There is a ground-floor sash window on the left side set in a segmental-arched recess, and flat, gauged-brick arches above the sash windows.

Inside, there is a double-height stair hall, with the west part being semicircular in plan. It features an imperial stair that rises from a rectangular vestibule below. Notable original features include treads with brackets, a wreathed handrail with curtail steps, thin balusters, and an original safety gate across the upper landing. The east walls on both levels have egg-and-dart cornices topping the entablatures.

Of particular interest are two low relief plaster roundels on the east wall. The one on the ground floor depicts a handmaiden washing the feet of a mourning woman, possibly representing a Homeric scene, rendered in Neoclassical style. The first-floor landing features a similar style roundel showing a shepherd admiring women, which is reminiscent of the Judgment of Paris. Several rooms contain fire surrounds in a plain Neoclassical style, along with Victorian additions, mainly in the form of mouldings.

Local climate

Woodville Hall, Part of Sacred Heart Convent School 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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