Heath House

Heath House is a large villa built around 1850 by Benjamin Cooke, a cooper and shipowner from Bermondsey. It is three storeys high with a basement and features three windows. The house is constructed of yellow stock brick with a stucco frieze, moulded cornices, and dentil details. A moulded string runs along the second floor window sills, while an entablature and blocking course are visible at first floor level. The sash windows have margin lights; those on the first floor are accentuated by console bracketed dentil cornices and segmental pediments. The ground floor windows have been modernized, and the basement windows feature flat surrounds and large keystones. Rusticated quoins are present, and rusticated flanks frame the central, prostyle modified Doric porch, which includes a frieze with guttae, dentils, and mutules. A nine-step approach leads to a half-glazed front door, accompanied by a cornice and a rectangular fanlight, set within a deep reveal and moulded architrave. A glazed conservatory extends from the left side, and a large, canted bay window is incorporated on the return to Vanburgh Terrace. Nos. 1 to 37 (odd), along with the gatepiers and walls to No. 1, form a group.