Limewood Villa at St Ebba's Hospital

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TQ 2062 20/309

EPSOM HOOK ROAD (east side, off) Limewood 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" and having a short central wing to rear. One storey with attics to ends and centre; 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 painted pebble-dashed panels and three-light small-pane casement window; barge boards; tile-hung and louvered 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, covering doorway, with another doorway nearer end; moulded wooden gutter; raised verges with moulded ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping; corniced brick stack to each, wing flanking centre, in front roof pitch.

Rear: in same style having wing with hipped roof, and tall stacks rising from near eaves. Small late C20 block to right of wing not of special interest. Lime Villa was one of the eight original villas at this, the first villa-type institution for people with epilepsy in England, and together with Thorn Villa and Walnut Villa (q.q.v) it forms a group around the cricket ground.

Listing NGR: TQ2029862600