Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW PITTVILLE LAWN 630-1/6/666 (East side) 12/03/55 No.55 Wyddrington House

GV II

Villa, now flats. 1836-7. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, brick and stucco end stacks; iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows and 3-storey-on-basement entrance bay set back to right. Right hand bay of main range breaks forwards slightly. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves to windows, those to ground floor have frieze and dentil cornice, that to right with Doric pilasters; architrace, frieze and cornice over first floor; crowning frieze and cornice; right return has horizontal rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over windows. 6/6 sashes where original, that to right, ground floor is a tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Former entrance in solid porch to right return now blocked and with multi-pane round-arched window with tooled head and keystone, and with Ionic columns in antis and cornice over. C20 entrance now to rear. Rear has tooled architraves to windows with sills on feet to first floor. Mainly 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery, including shutters to some windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous balustrade to ground floor has double scroll motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: plot sold to Thomas Smith, gent, for »650 on 21.06.1836 and house to be built in 12 months. 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. All the villas along Pittville Lawn form a distinguished architectural group. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 16-17,70-1; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 151-152).



Listing NGR: SO9543623136

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