Walnut Villa And Gatepiers

ST 79 SW KINGSWOOD OLD RECTORY ROAD (east side)

7/278 Walnut Villa (formerly listed in Rectory Road) and gatepiers 30.6.61

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Detached house. Early C18. Roughcast with flush quoins, hipped Cotswold stone slate roof, brick end stacks. L-shape with later small rear extensions, 2 storeys. 3 windows, widely spaced 8-pane sashes with moulded wood architraves, ground floor has twin 8-pane sashes to each side and central doorcase with flat hood on plain brackets, 2-pane transom light, 4 long fielded panels to door, up 3 worn semi-circular stone steps. Interior: hall has fine turned baluster open well staircase with wreathed and ramped handrail, and room to right of hall on ground floor has shell niche in cupboard to right of fireplace with all original scagliola and figured paintwork (reputed to be only surviving of a pair). Gatepiers are in dressed stone, panelled on bases, with moulded stone cornices and what appear to be medieval carved flat circular "finials", reputed to come from the Abbey Gate-house (q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST7463091983