Numbers 10 And 12 And Attached Screen Wall

TQ 09 62 ELMBRIDGE SOUTH AVENUE (west side) Whitley Village

10/450 Nos 10 and 12 and attached screen wall

GV II

Two almshouse flats with attached screen wall. c.1912. Red brick in Flemish bond with plain tile roof. Square on plan; 2 storey 2 x 2 bays with 1st floor porch on north side and screen wall linking the building to No 8 (q.v.). Plinth. Wooden cross-windows with casements. Ground floor: each bay has keyed ellip- tical arch linked by impost string, right arch opening into internal porch with window and door of 3 fielded panels (to No 10) on left; left arch with window. Platt band. 2 lst-floor windows. Coved eaves. Swept pyramidal roof with ball on cushion finial. External stack to left side. On right side, flight of stone steps with iron balustrade leading to lst-floor porch which has pilaster to right angle, arch as before, door (to No 12) in left side and roof hipped on right. Screen wall attached to porch has round arch and stone coping to top of wall which ramps down from either end. Right return: blind arch to porch; 1-light lst-floor window on left. Left return: stack flanked by windows on each floor, those on ground floor with flat brick arches. Rear: 2 small windows to each floor on left. 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, employ- ing leading architects of the day. N.Pevsner, Buildings of England, Surrey (1971), pp.520-1.

Listing NGR: TQ0939862325