Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW ASHFORD ROAD 630-1/22/143 (South side) 14/12/83 Nos.1 AND 1A

II

Villa, now 2 dwellings. 1840-50 with later additions and alterations. Brick with stucco facades and fish-scale slate roof with unpainted stucco stacks. Eclectic cottage ornee. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays including projecting single-storey entrance porch at left. Entrance porch has 6-panel part-glazed door with fanlight and tooled arched hood with keystone; above this a pierced balcony; first floor is set back and has fluted end pilaster, blind opening and hoodmould. 2nd projecting gabled bay has full-height fluted Doric pilasters to ends and decorative barge-boards, 1/1 first-floor and 2/2 ground-floor sashes with hoodmoulds; 3rd bay has fluted pilaster at right, 1/1 sash with hoodmould to first floor and 2/2 sash to ground floor, then to ground-floor a canted bay window and gable above 3-light mullioned first-floor window with 1/1 sashes and hoodmould, decorative barge-boards; and right end octagonal turret. Projecting bay has two 1/1 (first-floor) and two 2/2 (ground-floor) sashes, all with hoodmoulds; canted bay and 3-light window above have mullion windows, to first floor with 1/1 sashes and hoodmould with carved panel above. Turret has 1/1 sashes and upper panels of carved ornament. Further entrance to right return a 4-panel door. Right return has fluted end Doric pilasters. INTERIOR: not inspected. An idiosyncratic terrace design, with a mixture of Italianate, Swiss and Tudor Revival details.



Listing NGR: SO9419621306

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