128, Richmond Hill

House, now flats, dating to around 1861, with a rear Winter Garden and conservatory likely added around 1880, and some 20th-century window replacements. The main house is built in an Italianate style, with a stucco exterior and a slate mansard roof. It has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, featuring six windows, with three in a full-height curved bay on the right-hand side. There are two stuccoed brick chimneys, topped with a 20th-century metal guardrail. The second-floor windows retain original moulded architraves, although the windows themselves are 20th-century casements. A deep bracketed eaves cornice sits above the first-floor windows, which feature mullioned and transomed casements with pediments supported by brackets, and an elaborate cast iron balcony decorated with anthemion motifs. The ground floor is rusticated, and the windows have original surrounds with keystones, but the windows themselves are 20th-century casements. A Tuscan-style porch on the left side has a rectangular fanlight with pilasters, original double doors with central circular panels, and attached cast-iron area railings with spearheads and column supports.

Attached to the rear is a Winter Garden from around 1880, constructed of red brick with a flat roof and skylights. It has a panelled parapet, a one-storey height with a basement, and includes a three-light canted bay with segmental heads, sash windows with ‘horns’, a small round-headed sash, a stuccoed band interrupting the windows, a pediment above the central bay, and terracotta panels. The ground floor is carried on brick piers or metal supports. To the right is a conservatory, also dating from around 1880, built with a wood and glass structure on a brick plinth. This incorporates unusual marginal glazing, a canted bay, a pedimented entrance, and a flight of steps with decorative cast-iron balusters.

The interior of the main house contains a fine staircase hall with a stone well staircase and cast iron balusters, and plaster decoration including cornices with scrolled panels, tall panels with swags, door surrounds with open pediments and swags, and a ground-floor fireplace with a Gibbs surround. Many original doors remain. The 1861 census records the first occupant as Charles Bell, a Russia merchant and banker. Around 1890, Sir Max Waechter, who gifted Glover's Island and Petersham Lodge to the town and became High Sheriff of Surrey, resided here.