Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW LANSDOWN CRESCENT 630-1/17/437 (North side) 12/03/55 Pembury House, Little Pembury and attached area railings

GV II

Villa, now 2 houses and attached railings. c1831-48 with later alterations including later C19 conservatory to left. Architects: RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over brick with hipped slate roof (where original) and tall ashlar ridge and lateral stacks with cornices; iron area railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 5 first-floor windows, arranged 2:1:2 with outer bays breaking forwards, with 4-window wing set back to left and conservatory at right. First-floor band, continuous first-floor moulded sill band. Wide eaves on brackets. Main range: all windows in tooled architraves, those to ground-floor have cornices on consoles. 1/1 and 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, except basement has 3/6 sashes. Central entrance: flight of steps to recessed 4-panel, part-glazed double door with overlight, Doric pilasters in antis, frieze and cornice. Range to left has 6/6 sashes with 8/8 sashes to basement; entrance a flight of steps to C20 door. Right return (to garden) has 3:1 first-floor windows, that part to right breaks forwards and is gabled. Ground floor at left has glazed conservatory. 1/1 and 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, except to ground floor at right a tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; both windows to right have tooled architraves and cornices on consoles. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have rods. A similar design to Nouvelle, Lansdown Crescent (qv). Part of the former Lansdowne Estate, a notable example of suburban town planning. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 69).



Listing NGR: SO9425421875

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