Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW PARABOLA ROAD 630-1/12/615 (South side) 12/03/55 Bayshill Court

II

Villa. c1832-50. Ashlar over brick and concealed roof, with stucco right end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows between wings of 2 storeys on basement, 2 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles, first- and second-floor bands; cornices on console brackets to entrance and ground- and first-floor windows; crowning frieze, architrave and pediment. Central entrance a panelled door with overlight with margin-glazing. Ground- and first-floor outer windows are tripartite with 2/2 sashes where original, otherwise 2/2 sashes, those to second floor, outer windows are paired. Wings have end breakforwards with pediments. Quoins to breakforwards, first-floor impost band. Inner ranges have narrow 3/2 and 2/2 sashes, outer breakforwards have casements, those to first floor have round arched heads and radial glazing, keystones. Low parapet with copings. Rear has extended single-storey range with 3 round-arched windows with casements and crowning pediment. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: land for the development of Parabola Road was sold in 1837, following the death of Revd Richard Skillicorne (1834) for »50,000 to the Bayshill Estate Company. The Estate also included Bayshill Road and St George's Road.



Listing NGR: SO9423622092

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6