Description

CHELTENHAM

SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1003 (North side) 05/05/72 Beaufort House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)

GV II

Villa and attached railings. c1851-2, with later additions and alterations including c1970s attic dormer. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, end stucco stacks with cornices and iron balcony and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attic, 3 first-floor windows, with single-storey porch to right. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles, tooled architraves to windows, eared to first floor and with frieze and hooded cornice on console brackets to ground floor; tooled first-floor sill band, moulded band over first-floor windows, crowning dentil cornice. Tall 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes to ground floor, that to left a tripartite window, 1/1 sashes to first floor; basement has 4/4 sashes. All windows in plain reveals. Entrance at right, flight of roll-edged steps to solid porch with round-arched opening with tooled arch on imposts, within are double 4-panel doors. Rear retains 6/6 sashes and 9/9 staircase sash, also a tripartite window with 1/1 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have embellished rods balusters. Ground-floor balustrade on short plinths have embellished oval and rod motif. Ground-floor windows have blind boxes. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Pittville development, completed after Joseph Pitt's death in 1842. Originally planned as Beaufort Place and laid out as West Spa Approach, c1844, it was not part of the John Forbes's original plan for the estate. With the other villas, originally known as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group of similarly-designed villas along West Approach Drive with Mount Sorrell (qv), Cleeve House and Homewood (qv) and Park Gate (qv). (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).



Listing NGR: SO9536123731

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