Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW PARK PLACE 630-1/22/631 (East side) 12/03/55 No.18

GV II

Villa. c1830-32. After JB Papworth. Ashlar over brick with double pile, hipped slate roof. Double depth plan with central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, attic storey to rear, 3 first-floor windows. Ashlar detailing includes ground-floor rustication and voussoirs over ground-floor windows, tooled first-floor band; first-floor windows have tooled architraves; end pilasters with incised tooling. First floor has 6/6 sashes; ground floor has tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; basement has 8/8 sashes, all in tooled surrounds and with sills, those to ground floor have tooling to sills. Flight of 6 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 3-fielded-panel door (the lower panel with fluted surround) with sidelights and cambered overlight with decorative circle-motif to glazing bars, within Ionic porch with 2 pairs of columns, architrave, frieze and pediment. Wide eaves. Left return has 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing to head. Attic has 4/8 sashes. Rear retains some 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original features including open-well staircase with alternate stick and embellished balusters; otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Park Place was developed by 1832. Verey notes that 'this street .. consists mostly of detached or semi-detached villas, nearly all with neo-Greek detail, and some very much in the style of Papworth, who designed a house for Captain Capel in Cheltenham.' He sites Nos 16 (qv) and 18 as most resembling this design. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 153).



Listing NGR: SO9433821379

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