Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW CLARENCE SQUARE 630-1/10/270 (East side) 12/03/55 Lisle House and Wellesley Court Hotel

GV II

2 houses, now flats and hotel. 1837-8. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and stucco end and ridge stacks (at left). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 4 bays (6 first-floor windows arranged 2:1:1:2), with service range to rear. Centre 2 bays break forward slightly. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication drawn into voussoirs over windows to ground-floor outer bays; first-floor band surmounted by fluted Ionic pilasters through ground and first floors, architrave, frieze and dentil cornice; above these are pilasters with frieze and cornice, blocking course. Ground floor: outer bays have 1/1 sashes; centre bays have 1/1 sashes with side-sashes each in pilastered architrave with frieze and cornice. First and second floors: outer bays have 6/6 sashes; otherwise 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, those to first floor are taller and in tooled architraves, all with sills. Basement has tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes to centre and 8/8 sashes. Entrances (alike) set back to returns, 4-panel, part-glazed door with overlight in distyle porch with Ionic columns in antis. Returns have 3 first-floor windows and 3 fluted, full-height Ionic columns. INTERIOR: retains original joinery including shutters to some windows, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2 continuous 2-bay balconies have scrolled-heart motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42, the general layout being designed by John Forbes. Wellesley Court Hotel was originally known as Ross House. Clarence Square was laid out in the late 1820s, building began in 1832. The Square was named after the Duke of Clarence, who became William IV in 1830. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 62).



Listing NGR: SO9515722988

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