Windmill Hill Place (Residential Tennis Centre)

Windmill Hill Place, now a residential tennis centre, was designed by Willey Reveley, the architect of All Saints Church in Southampton (destroyed in the Second World War), for William Pigou around 1790. It was subsequently sold to the Curteis family, who occupied the house until approximately 1930. The main south-facing front has a central five-window section flanked by lower, one-window projecting wings. The house is stuccoed, with a stringcourse and a double eaves cornice. The roof is slate, with three hips. Original windows retain Venetian shutters and glazing bars. Cornices above the ground floor windows suggest a possible former veranda, while segmental recesses appear above the ground floor windows of the wings. The north, or entrance, front is similarly arranged, but the central portion has only three windows, with a round window on either side of the centre first floor window. A porch features pilasters, a projecting cornice, and a balustraded parapet. An older service wing, built of red brick and containing six windows, is recessed on the south side and extends to the east. The interior retains a good staircase and the house’s signed and dated plans.