Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW THE PARK 630-1/22/924 (North side) 12/03/55 No.123 Longford House

GV II

Villa, now 2 dwellings. c1833 with later additions and alterations including 2 extensions to rear, c1918. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roofs, tall end stucco stacks with cornices. Italianate style. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway and service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attic, 5 first-floor windows arranged 1:3:1, the central section is raised and has 2-storey bow. Stucco detailing includes end pilasters through ground and first floors, frieze and cornice; windows have tooled architraves, frieze and cornices, those to ground floor on console brackets, those to first floor have pierced balconies; bow has pilasters between openings to ground floor and continuous pierced balustrade to first floor. Central entrance: 3 roll-edged steps, curved on plan to double doors within paired pilasters and cornices; otherwise bow to ground floor has 4/4 sashes with margin-lights. Ground floor has outer tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. First floor has outer 6/6 sashes; bow has 3 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, and canopy. Attics have narrow casements to outer bays and 3/6 sash to centre. Basement has 4/4 sashes. Rear has bow to ground floor with tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sash curved on section, otherwise 6/6 sashes and 2 tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes. INTERIOR: retains many original features; iron open-well staircase has alternate stick and embellished balusters and with wreathed handrail to each floor. Arch leading into hall has sunk panels; mainly panelled doors. Room to rear has embellished cornice with grape ceiling frieze; room to right has egg-and-dart cornice and deep ceiling frieze with scroll motif. First floor retains 2 fireplaces with circle motif. Front of bow to first floor is a conservatory with blind box. 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 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.

Said to be one of the earliest villas to be built in The Park. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 33,92).

Listing NGR: SO9409321160

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)