Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE BAYSHILL ROAD
630-1/13/188 (East side)
12/03/55 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Fauconberg Villas
and attached railings to Nos.1 and 2

GV II

3 detached villas, now school offices with link blocks, and
attached railings to Nos 1 and 2. Probably c1847 by Samuel
Onley with additions c1980s. Stucco over brick with hipped
slate roofs and renewed grey brick end stacks; iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement. Three
first-floor windows each. Architraves enriched with paterae;
those to ground floor with round-arched heads and carved
acanthus keystones; those to first floor have sills on
enriched cornices. Enriched stringcourses at first floor, and
below eaves, those to first-floor of centre and left houses
have egg-and-dart moulding. Basement has 3/3 sashes. Attic
dormers (2 per house) have 1/1 sashes. Entrances set back at
left sides, single-storey porches with flights of steps to
4-panel doors and fanlights, that to left has egg-and-dart
cornice, frieze and copings, that to centre has frieze and
copings; removed to right house. Wide overhanging eaves.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings to sides of steps to
left and centre houses.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Bayshill Estate was developed by a joint
stock company which purchased land from the Skillicorne family
in 1837. By 1843 Henry Davies, in his Guide to Cheltenham,
describes `a number of detached villas .. several of which are
occupied by resident families of affluence and station, and
others are in an unfinished state.'
Little considers these to be part of, `a superb group (of
villas) that make Bayshill Road one of the great roads for
architecture in all England'. The stucco detail is
particularly distinctive.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 147; Hart G: A History
of Cheltenham: Stroud: 1965-1990: 172-3; Little B: Cheltenham:
London: 1952-: 76).

Listing NGR: SO9436021930

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666424

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