3-13, North Avenue

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TQ 0962 10/241

BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE Whiteley Village NORTH AVENUE Nos. 3 to 13 (odd)

GV II Almshouse row. Circa 1912 by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Red brick with ashlar dressings to centre on brick plinth. Plain tiled roof with four tall ridge stacks. Central pediment and columned cupola on rusticated square pedestal, flamboyant Baroque urns to ends of pedestal. Central one and a half storey arch breaking through ashlar string course below pediment, which also forms the lintel of flank ng doorways with massive Baroque, projecting keystones. Windows, all casements, flanking central projection the second from the centre on both sides inset behind segment-head arch. Outer bays with narrow segment-headed 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.

Listing NGR: TQ0942762579