Wallfield (Annexe To Reigate School Of Art And Design)

Wallfield, an annexe to Reigate School of Art and Design, is a large, irregular Italianate villa dating from the mid-19th century. The building is deeper than it is wide, with its entrance facing the road. It is two stories high and has five windows, the outer bays projecting outwards. The roof has a low pitch and is covered in slate, with bracketed eaves soffits above a wooden dentil cornice and coving below. The walls are constructed of banded rusticated stucco, creating a voussoir effect around the first-floor windows on the returns. The windows are sash windows, and their original bars have been lost. The ground floor centre protrudes slightly forward, almost to the plane of the projecting end bays. A wide, semi-circular porch with four Ionic columns projects from this central section. The porch features a central double door within a moulded architrave flanked by pilasters, approached by three steps, and topped by an entablature with a bracketed soffit.