Description

TQ 1867 SW KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES SOUTH BANK
Surbiton
11B/18
Hillcroft College
including former stable
block

II

1877 by Sir Rowland Plumbe. Large house and outbuildings. Red brick with some
tile-hanging and plastered gables with incised decoration. Timber mullioned and
transomed sash windows, some bayed. Elaborate porch of turned wood to west (main)
facade. Painted arched doorway within. Tiled roofs with hips and gables and
octagonal spirelet at the south west corner. Short return to south with a pair of
two storey bay windows. Many tall, red brick, ribbed chimney stacks. Internally,
original panelling, fireplaces and stained glass survives. Former stable block to
South Bank Road with similar details. Modern extension between these and main
building, and behind the latter, not of special interest. The Building News, May
18th, 1879 p.488.

Listing NGR: TQ1829367244

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hillcroft College at Wikipedia
• Hillcroft College official website
• Wikidata Q5762899

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)