Thorn Villa at St Ebba's Hospital

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TQ 2062 20/310

EPSOM HOOK ROAD (east side, off) Thorn Villa at St Ebba's Hospital

GV II

Hospital villa accommodation. 1901 by Clifford Smith for London County Council; altered red brick; plain tile roof. Half-butterfly plan, the two wings forming a "V". One storey with partial attic; seven-bay wings meeting at gabled entrance bay. In Arts and Crafts Style. Windows are small-pane sashes, some sashes with replacement single-pane glazing, and have flat brick arches with keystones; doors have vertical glazed panels. Entrance bay has wide keyed, segmental archway leading to recessed double-door, with upper part small-paned, small-pane overlight, and narrow side windows; gable has applied timber studs on brattished bressumer with pebble-dashed panels and three-light small-pane casement window, barge boards, tile-hung and louvred ridge cupola with ogee cap and finial.

Wings: bay nearest centre projects, and third bay also, as a canted bay window; glass-roofed verandah between the two projections of the left-hand wing (and probably also formerly of the right- hand wing) covering doorway; late C20 small added blocks at end of each wing not of special interest; moulded wooden gutter at eaves; raised verges with shaped ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping.

Thorn Villa was one of the 8 original villas at this, the first villa-style institution for people with epilepsy in England and together with Limewood Villa and Walnut Villa (q.q.v.) it forms a group around the cricket ground.

Listing NGR: TQ2027562730