Building record 1264100000 - POLLARDS PARK HOUSE, 1 TO 4 NIGHTINGALE LANE

Grade II. 1903 to the design of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Two storeys and attic. Roughcast walls. Deep plain tile roofs with stack on west. Wide and shallow leaded light window strips below eaves. The entrance elevation of the chief wing faces north with lower wings ranged round a courtyard in front of it, the courtyard entrance from a drive on the north side. Front elevation of chief wing with three two-light hipped dormers. Two storey gabled centre porch bay, with a ground floor door with wide lintel extending over single light flanking windows, and with a two-light transomed and mullioned first floor window and, to left hand, a single light window and a wide mullioned window strip without transomes. Ground floor windows with dripstones. Lower east and west courtyard wings, the west courtyard wing with a partly bowed front. The courtyard entrance on the north is flanked by battered walls with end buttresses and shallow pitched plain tile coping. The west courtyard wing is connected at right angles at its north end with a further higher wing on east-west axes; there is a brick chimney breast with a tall pair of brick stacks with moulded capping at the junction between the two wings. North elevation of this east-west wing with deep plain tile roof with two large hipped dormers each with a four-light transomed and mullioned window; ground floor elevation with a glazed round arched opening with a four-light window to each side; a tall brick stack at junction between this wing and a further one storey wing on west with bowed end (B1).
Pollards Park was requisitioned during World War II by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for use as an Operational Holding School by the Polish section (Station 20, also known as STS 20). The earliest reference to Pollards Park as STS 20 was on 1st January 1943 and it closed on 28th October 1944 (B3).