35-43, CIRCLE ROAD

TQ 0962 BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE CIRCLE ROAD

Whiteley Village

10/103 Nos. 35 to 43(odd)

GV II

Almshouse group. Circa 1912. Red brick with stone dressings in centre, red brick wings with coved ashlar cornices to hipped plain tiled roof. Tall end stacks. Plinth and string course at first floor level. 2 storeys with large ground floor central entrance arch flanked by widely spaced,paired,giant pilasters supporting an open pediment bavoe the centre. Casement windows on first floor separating the pairs of pilasters and in the centre. Single bulls eye window on ground floor outer bays. 2 half-glazed doors behind entrance arch. 3 bay wings with centralarch crowned by pediment gable and flanked by casements. This block is joined to Nos. 2 and 4 Heather Walk to left, and Nos. 1 and 3 South Avenue to the right.

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 pp520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0947362378