Devonport House

TQ 3877 ROMNEY ROAD

26/378 Devonport House (including Nos 66-68 (consec) King William Walk)

II GV

Includes Nos 66-68 (consecutive), King William Walk. Nurses' home. 1926-9 by Sir Edwin Cooper, incorporating part of Boys' Hospital of 1783 (Nos 66-68 King William Walk) as rear wing. English bond reddish brown brick with Portland.stone dressings; hipped Roman tile roof; brick stacks with moulded stone capping. Plan has long east-west range, facing Romney Road, with 2 projecting wings to south including 1783 wing to west. Wrennaissance style. 3 storeys and attic; 24-window range with stone plat band above, rusticated ground floor and stone cill bands to ground and first-floor windows. Giant order of 2 Doric columns to recessed central bay set above semicircular arched entrance flanked by blind oculi; flanking bays have garlanded stone oculi over 24-pane sashes set in bracketed pedimented stone architraves with flaming urns on bracketed balustrades set above panelled double doors in bolection-moulded stone architraves. Ground-floor 20-pane sashes, first-floor 15-pane sashes and second-floor 12-pane sashes set in square-headed stone architraves to main 8-window ranges with similar garlanded oculi and pedimented first-floor windows to each outer bay; pedimented dormers with 12-pane sashes. Other elevations similar in style; rear of central entrance bay has lugged bolection-moulded architrave to second-floor window and pedimented first-floor window with balcony and urns set over similar rusticated doorway; 1783 wing, facing King William Walk, of 3 storeys and 8 x 3 bays with first and second-floor windows (some retaining gauged brick arches over sashes with glazing bars) set in recessed semicircular arches with stone impost courses and with dentilled cornice. Interior: includes marble vestibule with pilasters, commemorative plaque, dentilled cornice and neo-classical style plaster ceiling; fine panelled boardroom with carved overmantel, marble fireplace and neo-classical style plaster ceiling; 2 late C17 style dog-leg staircases with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ3848877621