Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Epsom and Ewell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Hospital villa.
Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- iron-sentry-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epsom and Ewell
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Hospital villa
- Address
- Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital, Hook Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 204 627
- Coordinates
- 51.35067, -0.27245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital is a hospital villa accommodation built in 1901 by Clifford Smith for the London County Council. The building features altered red brick and a plain tile roof, designed in a half-butterfly plan with two wings forming a "V". It is a single storey with a partial attic and has seven-bay wings that meet at a gabled entrance bay, showcasing the Arts and Crafts style.
The windows are small-pane sashes, with some replaced by single-pane glazing, and they feature flat brick arches with keystones. The doors have vertical glazed panels. The entrance bay includes a wide, keyed, segmental archway leading to a recessed double door, which has an upper part with small panes, a small-pane overlight, and narrow side windows. The gable displays applied timber studs on a brattished bressumer, with painted, pebble-dashed panels and a three-light small-pane casement window. It also has barge boards and a tile-hung and louvred ridge cupola topped with an ogee cap and finial.
The wings have a bay nearest the center that projects, along with a third bay that forms a canted bay window. There is a glass-roofed verandah between the two projections of the right-hand wing, which likely also extended from the left-hand wing, covering the doorway. Late 20th-century small added blocks at the end of each wing are not of special interest. The eaves feature a moulded wooden gutter, raised verges with shaped ashlar kneelers, and ashlar coping.
Walnut Villa is one of the eight original villas at St Ebba's Hospital, the first villa-style institution for people with epilepsy in England. Together with Limewood Villa and Thorn Villa, it forms a group around the cricket ground.
Local climate
Walnut Villa at St Ebba's Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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