Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW PAINSWICK ROAD 630-1/22/611 (East side) No.60 Church House

GV II

Villa, now church rooms. c1840-60 with later additions and alterations; including c1960s range to right. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and end gault brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement, 3 first-floor windows, with blind entrance bay at right. Third bay breaks forwards and has quoins to angles at ground floor, moulded ground-floor sill band; moulded cornice over ground floor and first-floor sill band. To left part a first-floor band. Windows have tooled architraves, all with sills on feet. Ground floor has two 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, then a tripartite window with 2/2 between 1/1 sashes, all with blind boxes. First floor has two 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes with cambered heads, then a pair of 1/1 round-arched sashes with hoodmoulds. Wide eaves on paired brackets. 2 attic roof dormers with 3/3 sashes and cambered arches, dormer to right breaks eaves and has casements. Basement has 8/8, 4/4, 8/8 and tripartite 8/8 between 2/2 sashes. Entrance at right: flight of roll-edged steps to 3-panel, part-glazed door with overlight in solid porch with round-arched opening, cornice and low parapet. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork. Dogleg staircase has ornate iron balusters. To front room a cornice with anthemion motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: Painswick Road was laid out by Charles Baker to connect Cheltenham with Painswick following an Act of 1820. One of a good group of villas. Occupies a good corner site and has good group value with No.62 Painswick Road (qv) and Church of St Philip and St James, Gratton Road (qv). (Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal: Garrett JV: Charles Baker of Painswick and Cheltenham: 1989-).



Listing NGR: SO9439021140

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