56-64, OCTAGON ROAD is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Almshouse.
56-64, OCTAGON ROAD
- WRENN ID
- vacant-minaret-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OCTAGON ROAD
Whiteley Village
10/291 Nos. 56 to 64. (even)
GV II
Almshouse row, Circa 1912 by Sir Ernest George. Red brick with plain tiled roofs and two return gables painted towards the left end. These and end gables decorated with double curves. 3 panelled ridge stacks, one at right end. Single storey. 15 bays with windows in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th , 8th, 11th, 14th and 15th bays. Single entrance arch to left end, pointed entrance arches in 6th and 7th bays and 12th and 13th bays. Glazing bar sash windows and boarded doors throughout, brick pilaster mouldings to entrance arches. 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) pp520-1.
Listing NGR: TQ0951662341
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