Earlsfield House

Earlsfield House is a workhouse dating from 1902, designed by Lansdell and Harrison for the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. The building is constructed symmetrically in a late 17th-century style. The ground floor is of red brick, while the upper levels are yellow brick with red brick and stone dressings. The main elevation, facing Swaffield Road, features a three-storey, five-window hipped-roof central pavilion, with recessed single-window links to four-storey cross wings of one window width. The central pavilion's entrance bay has a recessed round-arched porch, framed by rusticated piers, with a door and wing lights. First and second floor windows are tripartite, set between Ionic giant pilasters supporting a pedimented gable. A modillion eaves cornice runs along the roofline. The building has ribbed stacks with oversailing courses. The cross wings feature a canted bow window on the ground floor, and tripartite windows on the first and second floors, similarly set between Ionic giant pilasters supporting an entablature with a segmental pediment. These cross wings also have a modillion eaves cornice, hipped roofs, and stacks with oversailing courses.