Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW SUFFOLK SQUARE 630-1/17/872 (West side) 12/03/55 No.21 Fullwood Park (Formerly Listed as: SUFFOLK SQUARE Stratford House)

GV II

Villa, now part of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. c1823-34 with later additions and alterations including probably late C19 range to rear. Probably by Edward Jenkins for developer James Fisher. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and off-centre rear stucco stack with cornice. Double depth plan with central hallway and extension to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 5 first-floor windows with single-storey ranges to sides. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band, second-floor sill band; tooled architraves to windows, those to first floor have frieze and cornice, that to centre has pediment. 6/6 sashes where original, in plain reveals and with sills, those to second floor on feet; blind boxes remain. Central entrance in pedimented tetrastyle Doric porch with fluted columns and triglyphs and metopes, now glazed with double part-glazed doors with sidelights and overlight with glazing bars; within are 6-panel double doors with sidelights and overlight. End ranges break forwards and have pilasters to angles and crowning entablature, replacement 1/1 sashes, in tooled surrounds with cornice on console brackets; further range to right has C20 glazed doors. Left return has three 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Extension to rear has 2-storey canted bay with 1/1 sashes. INTERIOR: retains many original features including central hallway with Minton tile floor and open-well staircase with iron balustrade with circle-and-lozenge motif balusters, wreathed mahogany handrail, egg-and-dart with acanthus cornice, skylight. Original joinery includes panelled shutters to window and panelled doors. Otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Suffolk Square occupies land bought by the Earl of Suffolk from the de la Bere's, on which he built Suffolk House for his own residence; his daughter later sold much of the land, on which Suffolk Square now stands. James Fisher acquired land for the development in 1823. The Square is shown as built on Merrett's Map of 1834. All listed items in Suffolk Square form a very distinguished

group. (Blake S: Notes; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9442821532

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