Northlands

LANDFORD SOUTHAMPTON ROAD SU 22 SE (off west side) 8/158 Northlands 23/7/76

II

Detached villa, now nursing home. 1830s with additions of c1850 and 1860. Plastered brick, Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. L- plan. 2-storey front, scattered fenestration. Half-glazed double doors with Art Nouveau handles, in Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould to left, to right are a variety of windows, mostly groups of tall casements and a Venetian window lighting stairs. Gabled eaves with good ogee-carved bargeboards with pendants. Groups of octagonal brick stacks and lead or ceramic cresting to roof. Left return has delicate cast-iron verandah around a canted gable with French windows, to left is square bay window with tall casements. Rear garden front: 2-storey, 7-window, central canted bays with strapwork-decorated parapets, windows are mostly tall casements with some plate glass sashes. To left is conservatory of c1850 with Tudor-arched windows. To right of front is wing of c1860, 2- storey, 5-window, half-glazed door in glazed porch to right, three plate-glass sashes with margin panes to left on ground and first floors, to right are tall sashes to ground floor and sashes to first floor, similar gabled eaves with ogee carved bargeboards and pendants. Rear of wing has tall casements to ground floor and margin-pane sashes to first floor, single-storey services with same details. Interior has stairs of c1900 with turned balusters and moulded handrail, other fittings of c1900 include good Art Nouveau fireplace surrounds with coloured tiles, plaster ceiling cornices and 4-panelled doors. Villa built for Mr Foot, a Salisbury solicitor and extended for James Wigram. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: SU2507220807