Glenwood

Glenwood is a detached house in Queen Anne Style, designed by the architect E R Robson and built between 1881 and 1882. A south-east wing in matching style was added between 1895 and 1916, possibly also by Robson. The property was renovated and subdivided after 1983.

The house is constructed in red brick laid in English bond with timber and roughcast gables. The tiled roofs are topped with clustered brick chimneystacks set on edge. Windows are timber casements, some with leaded lights and one with stained glass.

The north-west entrance onto Mycenae Road faces two storeys with four casement windows to the first floor and an attic timber and roughcast gable with carved barge-boards and a five-light window. The ground floor features a projecting single-storey porte-cochere with a round-headed porch and balustrading above, accessed through a door with six fielded panels. Three casement windows are positioned adjacent to the north.

The south-west front facing Westcombe Park Road was originally of four bays before the south-east wing was added. A projecting full-height gabled bay with carved barge-boards and roughcast infill contains a first-floor casement window with three-light mullioned and transomed lights and a ground-floor nine-light canted bay with dentilled cornice. The set-back range features a tall staircase window subdivided into three sections by two transoms, articulated by a broken floral scrolled pediment above and a lunette-shaped glazing bar below supported on a console bracket. Two first-floor mullioned and transomed casements are positioned above a large projecting square bay with seven lights and dentilled cornice. The adjoining projecting south-east wing spans two bays: the first contains a first-floor mullioned and transomed window with moulded brick apron below and an oval fixed window on the ground floor; the second projects with an attic timber and roughcast gable, a first-floor mullioned and transomed casement and a ground-floor canted bay with dentilled cornice.

The north-east or garden front includes a single-storey flat-roofed loggia with balustrading and tessellated floor at the western end. A projecting full-height gable with carved wooden barge-boards and roughcast infill adjoins it, containing a casement window and two mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor, with two taller mullioned and transomed casements on the ground floor. A narrower bay with similar gable treatment follows, featuring three-light mullioned and transomed windows to both ground and first floors. The remainder of this front is set back slightly with casement windows and a massive brick chimneystack. The rear door is half-glazed with rectangular fanlight and adjoining fixed oval window.

Originally, the ground floor contained an entrance lobby, inner hall with staircase, drawing room, morning room, dining room, billiard room, domestic offices and loggia. The first floor held a library, six bedrooms and three bathrooms, with a further bedroom on the half-landing and two bedrooms under the eaves. Following renovation and subdivision after 1983, the plan was converted into eight bedsits, two flats and a meeting room.

The original doorways feature narrow reeded architraves and five-panelled doors with a horizontal rather than vertical central panel divided into three smaller panels.

The staircase hall contains a dogleg staircase with slender turned balusters and a dado rail. The staircase window is leaded with stained glass featuring geometric shapes and stylized rose designs.

The drawing room retains decorative plasterwork and joinery including a fireplace with tapering Ionic pilasters and an overmantel with miniature Ionic columns and a segmental-arched niche with wooden filigree decoration. Further interior fittings recorded in the 1983 Sales Particulars may also survive.