Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE DOURO ROAD
630-1/16/304 (East side)
12/03/55 No.6
Douro House and attached railings
with attached wall and gate pier to
right
(Formerly Listed as:
DOURO ROAD
Nos.1-6
Douro Lodge)

GV II

Villa with attached railings, and wall and pier to right.
c1840-50. Architects probably RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over
brick with stucco to rear, hipped slate roof has 2 tall roof
stacks with cornices and iron railings and verandah; stucco
wall and ashlar pier. Square on plan, double depth with
central hallway and single bay to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor
windows. Ashlar detailing includes quoins to angles;
continuous ground-floor balcony to garden facade and
individual ground-floor balconies to entrance facade with
bulbous balusters and shaped copings on plinths; tooled
architraves to windows, eared to first floor, those to ground
floor have cornices on consoles; moulded first-floor sill
band; frieze, cornice. Entrance, flight of steps to solid
porch to right return has paired Ionic pilasters, round-arched
openings with moulded surround with keystone and with
pilasters, round-arched windows with keystones and imposts to
sides, frieze, architrave and dentil cornice. Within a 4-panel
door with stained glass with fanlight in tooled surround with
keystone. 1/1 sashes throughout, those to ground floor,
entrance facade are tripartite with narrow 1/1 side sashes.
Wide eaves on brackets. Attics: dormers break roofline to
garden front, otherwise roof dormers with 3/3 sashes and
broken-pedimented gables. Rear has round-arched staircase
window with painted glass. First-floor windows to garden
facade have blind boxes.
INTERIOR: retains original features including tiled floor to
hall and heavily embellished cornice with scrolls and cherubs;
2 roundels probably after Thorwaldsen; full-height open-well
staircase has wreathed handrail; otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have stick
balusters. Continuous ground-floor verandah to garden front
has scroll motif to uprights and openwork frieze. Wall at

right approx 3.5m long x 1.5m high. Pier to end has shaft with
carved panel and shaped cap.
Forms a group with No.1 (Douro Lodge) (qv), Nos 2 and 3 (qv),
and Nos 4 and 5 (qv), Douro Road, of overall Classical design
with Italianate touches to the roof and dormers. The
symmetrical design consists of 2 pairs of semi-detached villas
between detached villas.

Listing NGR: SO9400221962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398260

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