Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER SPA ROAD 630-1/18/540 (North side) 12/03/55 No.60 Claremont Lodge

GV II*

Includes: Nos.23 AND 25 VITTORIA WALK. Villa, now 3 flats and 2 houses. c1800-10 with later alterations including upper storey and entrance porch of 1835 and range to right c1860. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and stucco stacks; wrought-iron verandah. Double depth plan with hallway to spine and service range at right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys 4 first-floor windows arranged 1:2:1, including central full-height bow, and with 2-low-storey, 1-window range to left and 2-lower-storey, 6-window range to right. Mainly 6/6 sashes where original, central bay has 6-pane French windows and lattice frieze with divided overlights to ground and first floors; range at right has some 1/1 sashes with margin-lights, all in plain reveals. Crowning cornice, low parapet and copings. Ranges to left and right have central ground-floor Ionic column and range to far right has 2 further Ionic columns now embedded into wall. Range to right has 2 entrances, off-centre left and far right: 6-panel door with fanlight and part-glazed door. Left return (entrance facade): 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with low ramped walls either side. First floor projects on 4 Ionic columns. Central entrance a 6-panel door with frieze and wide overlight with decorative glazing bars; in architrave with sunk panels to pilasters. Ground floor has 4 roundels. First floor has blind openings; crowning cornice and low parapet with copings; central upshot with shell panel. Walls to either side ramped downwards with round-arched niches for urns. INTERIOR: inner doorway to hall, part-glazed double doors in fluted architrave with overlight and space for lantern. To ground-floor front SE room a fresco above the fireplace depicts Claremont Lodge before the upper storey was added. Original plasterwork includes acanthus and ball motif to hall; central bow-windowed room has acanthus frieze. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: main range has continuous first-floor verandah with rod-and-circle motif to balustrade and rods to uprights with Gothic arcade to frieze; similar window guards to first-floor windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the first phase of development of this area, probably on land originally purchased by Henry Thompson for the de la Bere's. This represents a similar

design to Vittoria House, Vittoria Walk (qv). Wrought-iron railings and lamp holders removed during Second World War. Of the entrance facade to this house DI Stratton-Davis in his Distinction Thesis in RIBA Library writes, `Although inconspicuous in size, it ranks with the most important of Cheltenham's buildings. In a composition itself quite unique every element has been carefully judged and every non-essential eliminated. The treatment of the Ionic order, and the lightness of touch everywhere displayed inevitably associates it with the designer of Montpellier Walk'. A significant example of an early villa in Regency Cheltenham and one of an important group of villas remaining in this area. Nos 23 & 25 Vittoria Walk listed on 12.03.84. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 30; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 18).



Listing NGR: SO9475621854

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