Wilton Place

Wilton Place is a large former house, now divided into flats, built in the mid to late 18th century with alterations in the early 20th century. It is constructed of reddish-brown Flemish bond brickwork with a tiled roof. The house has a large U-shaped plan with a rear wing to the left, forming a three-quarter H shape. It is three storeys high, with a later projecting single-storey wing in the centre of the U and further rear wing completing the H.

The garden front features a tripartite window with two panes, set within a flat rubbed brick arch to the left wing. A projecting centre wing has a brick plinth, with tall windows containing two unequal panes with flat rubbed brick arches. A projecting wing returns on the left, with a window to its front elevation, and a wider central window on the front, with a two-pane upper sash, flanked by narrower windows. The building has a moulded brick eaves cornice and a hipped roof with a rendered, pedimented gable at its centre. To the right, a late 20th-century three-light metal window replaces an earlier opening with a flat rubbed brick arch, and a cellar window has a cambered head. First-floor casement windows, each with a trefoil head and glazed spandrels, are spaced regularly. The second floor mirrors this pattern. The eaves have shaped dentils, and the roof is hipped with a central valley or lead flat. Chimneys are located on the ridge of the left wing, to the right of the centre, and a small chimney is in the right rear corner. An external stack is present on the right return.

On the entrance elevation, a projecting three-storey wing has three windows, the centre one being blind, with the outer two windows resembling those on the front, but with cambered brick arches. The left return has two mid-20th-century metal windows. A six-panel door sits on the right side of the main block, accompanied by a semi-circular fanlight with curved V tracery beneath a rubbed brick arch. A window mirrors that of the wing, and a blind window is positioned alongside. A single-storey wing extends beyond. Two blind openings are found on the first floor of the wing’s right side, while a two-light window is present on the left. The main block has five similar windows. The second floor originally featured two plain casement windows with cambered brick arches in the centre, flanked by blind openings, with the left window enlarged in the late 20th century to accommodate a three-light metal window. Five further two-light plain casements are also present. The eaves and hipped roof echo those of the garden front. A curved conservatory, once on the garden front’s right side, was removed in the mid to late 20th century.