100-110, OCTAGON ROAD

TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OCTAGON ROAD

Whiteley Village

10/302 Nos. 100 to 110 (even)

GV II

Almshouse row. Circa 1912 by Sir Aston Webb. Red brick with some wooden window bressumers and plain tiled roofs. End stacks. The building is canted at 45 degrees about a central, tile hung return gable surmounting a shallow 2 storey projection in the angles. 2 storeys, 1 storey and attics to wings under 2 hipped semi-dormers. 5 bay centre casements. Central first floor balcony with wooden bressumer over and balustrade panelled with pantiles . Flanking balcony openings glazed at time of resurvey. Square headed, wide, central entrance with gauged head and 2 rubbed brick freestanding Tuscan columns. Narrower square headed entrance with flat hood in outer bays. All doors boarded. Whiteley Village was provided by William Whiteley of Whiteley's stores for thrifty old folk and was laid out on an octagonal plan by Frank Atkinson, employing leading architects of the day. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp520-521.

Listing NGR: TQ0927662420