Wandle House

Wandle House is a villa of around 1790, attributed to the architect Robert Mylne (1733–1811). It is constructed of brown tuck-pointed stock brick with gault brick window headers, stucco sill bands, and a slate-tiled mansard roof.

The house is rectangular in plan with a bowed southern projection and comprises two principal storeys with a cellar and attic storey. The principal rooms are arranged to the south, facing the River Wandle, while the entrance hall and stairs are positioned in the eastern bay of the north side, providing access to secondary north-west rooms on each floor.

The building is a restrained Palladian villa. The western elevation has three bays with flat gauged-brick headed windows, the ground-floor windows featuring blind arch reveals. The south elevation displays a bowed front with three windows to both storeys, each set under flat gauged-brick headers. The north elevation has two bays, also with blind arch reveals to the ground floor and gauged-brick headed window openings; the west bay has blind windows to both storeys, while the east bay contains a pair of sash windows (the ground-floor window inserted in place of a former stepped entrance which was demolished by 1963). A continuous stucco band runs between the storeys, with a cornice featuring brick dentils above the first floor. A parapet with intermittent balustrading screens the slate-tiled mansard roof, replacement or inserted dormer windows, and the central brick stack. Most windows are original sashes with glazing bars, though some are later replicas.

The principal ground-floor room to the south retains an original fire surround with lobed architrave, egg-and-dart cornice, and elaborate floriated detailing (with later inlay). The windows to the bowed south front have moulded surrounds with box shutters. The room has continuous skirting and a plaster cornice with moulding and a band of egg-and-dart ornamentation. The ceiling features a plaster-moulded oval patera with webbed detailing at its centre. Doors to the north, on either side of the fireplace, have fielded panels within moulded architraves. The southern room on the upper floor retains skirting, panelled doors with architraves, windows with box shutters and moulded surrounds, though the cornice has been replaced and the fire surround lost. The smaller north rooms at ground and first-floor levels retain fielded panelled doors and several windows with moulded surrounds and box shutters. The attic storey was comprehensively remodelled in the late 20th century, with all windows and fittings at this level being replacements or recently inserted. The cellar retains exposed brick walls and relieving arches to the central stack. The stairs have been reconstructed and the former entrance hall and landings refurbished, with mouldings to the doors of front and rear rooms and elements of the skirting retained.

A diminutive glazed link block extension of 1963 adjoins the east side of the house. The main entrance fronts to the rear car park with steps down to the south.