Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW WELLINGTON ROAD 630-1/10/986 (South side) 12/03/55 Little Evesham House (Formerly Listed as: WELLINGTON ROAD No.21 Evesham House (No.21) and Little Evesham House)

GV II

Includes: No.21 Evesham House EVESHAM ROAD. 2 semi-detached villas. c1833 for Honourable Andrew Ramsay; Little Evesham House, to south, probably c1841. Stucco over brick with concealed roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 4 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes 4 Doric pilasters (between windows and door) to left, continuous first-floor dentil entablature, which breaks forwards over pilasters; tooled architraves to first-floor windows; crowning dentil entablature and low parapet with copings. 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes where original. All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Ground floor has 6 openings, the second is round-arched. Entrance to left in single-storey porch a 4-panel part-glazed door with sidelights; porch has cornice. Right return to Evesham Road has 3 first-floor windows. Entrance to centre has 2 fluted Ionic half-columns in entasis through ground and first floors to either side of central window with paired Doric pillars to ends, crowning dentil entablature. Flight of steps to central entrance a 4-panel door with sidelights and overlight with margin-lights. Ground-floor windows have tooled architraves and pediments on console brackets, that to right in breakforward and with 1/1 lugged sash, that to left a blind window. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Rear retains 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. 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 John Forbes. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 68).





Listing NGR: SO9527922989

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2