Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9320NE THE PARK 630-1/25/914 (South side) 14/12/83 Nos.55 AND 57 Oakley (No.55) and Little Oakley (No.57)

GV II

Villa, now 2 dwellings. c1833-50 with later additions and alterations including late C19 conservatory to left and C20 range to right. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roofs, stucco stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with range set back to right of 2 storeys, 1 + 4 first-floor windows and further C20 range to right. Main range (No 55): stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over windows; moulded first-floor sill band, tooled architraves to first floor windows. Steps to central entrance a 3-panel door with sidelights and cambered overlight with decorative glazing bars, within Doric porch with 2 pairs of fluted columns, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice with guttae, blocking course. Ground floor has tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Wide eaves on brackets. Tall end stacks with cornices. Range to right has flight of roll-edged steps to off-centre left entrance a C20 6-panel door with sidelights and overlight with margin glazing within porch with 2 pillars, frieze, cornice and blocking course. Ground floor has 6/9 sashes, first floor has 6/6 sashes. Joining range has casement windows. Crowning cornice and blocking course, raised to centre, copings. Ridge and end stacks. Rear retains 6/6 and 2/2 sashes. INTERIOR: drawing room has marble fireplace with panel showing Leda and the Swan, plasterwork includes acanthus frieze and grape frieze to front room; hall has egg-and-dart frieze with acanthus modillions and fleurons. Open-well staircase has rod and bobbin balusters with wreathed handrail. HISTORICAL NOTE: 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 architect Samuel Daukes who continued the building. One of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for Regent's Park (1809-11) London. A similar Papworth-derived design to Nos 35 and 37 (qqv) The Park.

(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9385720744

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