Description

CHARLTON KINGS

SO91NE CIRENCESTER ROAD
630-1/4/49 (West side)
30/10/79 Charlton Park Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
CIRENCESTER ROAD
Lilleybrook Hotel)

II

Villa, now hotel. Mid C19 with later additions and
alterations, including those of late C20; altered and
remodelled late C19 by John Middleton. Stucco over brick with
slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (on basements to garden facade), 4-bay
centre with pediment over 2 central windows and 2-storey,
3-window bows to outer bays. Cornices over each floor and to
blocking course. Central solid portico with Doric columns and
piers, 6-panel door with plain transom light. Flanking
2-and-a-half storey wings, gables treated as open pediments
over arched windows, 1 + 1 window below. Windows are mainly
1/1 sashes in moulded architraves, those to bows are curved
(some casements); to left range, ground floor a tripartite
window. Verandah to right part.
Later 2-storey projection on left-hand wing; 2-and-a-half
storey projection on right hand wing and a 2-and-a-half
storey, 3-bay extension to right.
Garden front: the symmetrical rhythm of the elevation is
clearer here than on the entrance front.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has colonnade of paired Doric columns;
black and white marble floor. Open-well staircase has fluted
square columns. Ground-floor rooms mainly face garden: room to
right has egg-and-dart cornice, 'lobby' with 2 Ionic columns
and responds; panelled partition doors lead through to centre
room with Ionic columns into bay, acanthus modillion cornice;
marble fireplace with shell motif. Room to left: oak panelled,
fireplace with pulvinated frieze. Doors: mainly panelled with
glazing and margin-lights in tooled architraves. First floor
has egg-and-dart cornice, dado rail. Mainly 6-panel doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Middleton was architect of several
churches in Cheltenham and Charlton Kings.

Listing NGR: SO9645319551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666286

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6