Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9420NW THE PARK 630-1/26/908 (South East side) 05/05/72 Nos.31 AND 33 Park Lawn (No.31) and Springfield Lawn (No.33) and attached railings

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas with attached area and dividing railings. c1833-50. Ashlar over brick with concealed roof, stucco central ridge stack and iron balustrades. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, with attics to rear, 7 first-floor windows arranged 1:1:3:1:1, with central and end breakforwards; further blind bay well set back at left. Flights of 5 roll-edged steps to end entrances, 4-panel, part-glazed doors with overlights with margin-glazing within solid porches with paired pilasters, architrave, frieze and cornice surmounted by balustrade with pierced X-motif, forming balcony to first-floor window. 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills, those to 3 central ground-floor windows and that to blind bay at left have cornices on consoles, otherwise panels over. Crowning frieze, cornice, low parapet, further frieze and cornice and blocking course. Basement has 1/1 sashes. Left return has central full-height canted bay with 6/6 sash and 2/2 sashes, to first floor between blind window and 6/6 sash both with cornices on consoles. Rear retains 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; attics have casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have X-motif. Verandah to canted bay on left return has slender Doric columns, balustrade has Carron Company heart-and-anthemion motif. Dividing arrowhead railings have bars and dogbars. HISTORICAL NOTE: General Sir James Grant (1808-75) lived at Park Lawn. The Park had been laid out by 1833 by its owner Thomas Billings as an oval, tree-lined drive with a central park which, for a short period in the mid-C19, became a zoological garden. In 1839 the development was bought by Samuel Daukes who continued the building. This is one of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for Regent's Park (1809-11), London. A very distinguished villa design. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271).

Listing NGR: SO9406320735

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