Gilmore House

Gilmore House is a mid-18th century house situated on Clapham Common. It is two storeys high with a basement and dormers, originally seven windows wide, including a central three-window canted bay. A later three-window extension was added to the east. The house is constructed of brown brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. The main entrance is distinguished by a stepped door surround framing a round-arched opening. The central ground floor window of the bay features a balustraded apron, a round-arched sash within a shaped architrave, and a bracketed open pediment. The windows on either side of the bay have a similar full entablature, with a crossette architrave, frieze, cornice, and pediment. The windows in the extension also have the full entablature, but only the central tripartite window is pedimented. A continuous plinth and cill band run along the base, and above the first floor is a cyma-bracketed cornice. The splayed faces of the bay incorporate recessed roundels, each containing a bust: one of Shakespeare and one of Milton. A parapet with coping sits atop the building. A Mansard roof is present, with a higher parapet concealing the hipped roof of the extension. The chimney stacks have oversailing courses. A Greater London Council blue plaque, installed in 1977, commemorates the residence of John Walter, the founder of the Times newspaper.