Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW PITTVILLE LAWN 630-1/6/671 (East side) 12/03/55 No.79 Ellingham House (Nos.1 and 2) and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: PITTVILLE LAWN (East side) No.79 Ellingham House)

GV II

Villa, now flats and attached area railings. 1840-1. Built by Solomom Sims, timber merchant, for Susan Dawson, widow, of Brislington in Somerset. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, brick and stucco side stacks; wrought-iron verandah to right return and area railings to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes Doric pilasters through ground and first floors to ends and between windows, crowning architrave, frieze and cornice; garden facade has similar pilasters, windows have tooled architraves, those to ground floor with cornices on console brackets. 6/6 sashes, all openings in plain reveals and with sills. Entrance to left return, flight of roll-edged steps to porch with Ionic columns in antis, architrave, frieze and cornice with blocking course, within a 4-panel, part-glazed door with sidelights and overlight with glazing bars. Basement has 6/6 sashes where original. Left return has 4 first-floor windows, the outer blind, otherwise 6/6 sashes. Right return has 4 first-floor windows. Central breakforward has end pilasters. 6/6 sashes and blind outer windows, all in tooled architraves. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: verandah to right return with anthemion motif to uprights and openwork scalloped frieze. Area railings to rear have X-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 Joseph Forbes. All the villas along Pittville Lawn form a distinguished architectural group. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 16-17,72; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 152).



Listing NGR: SO9547423295

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)