Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PITTVILLE LAWN 630-1/10/660 (East side) 12/03/55 Nos.19 AND 21 and attached area railings to No.21

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now flats (No.19) and surgery (No.21), with attached area railings. c1839-40. Possibly by Robert Stokes, architect. For James Creed. Stucco over brick with concealed roof; brick and stucco party-wall and left end stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and 2-storey single entrance bays set back to sides, 1 + 5 + 1 first-floor windows, the central 3 windows break forward. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor of breakforward, drawn into voussoirs over windows, also to ground floor of entrance bay at left; first-floor band above rustication; tooled architraves to first-floor windows and to outer windows of main range to ground floor which also have cornices on console brackets; continuous moulded frieze and cornice above first floor (cornice missing at left); crowning frieze and cornice. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, taller to ground floor; ground-floor windows at left have blind boxes; second floor has 3/6 sashes; basement has 8/8 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills. End entrances: flights of steps to 4-panel doors with overlights, that to right in solid porch with paired Tuscan columns, frieze and cornice with blocking course. INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including shutters to windows; plasterwork includes moulded cornices and ceiling roses. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Spearhead area railings to return at left. Balustrades to sides of top step have stylized 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 the architect John Forbes. Originally 1 and 2 Berkeley Villas. All the villas along Pittville Lawn form a distinguished architectural group. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 70).



Listing NGR: SO9536722943

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