Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER DRIVE 630-1/18/523 (South side) 12/03/55 Eagle Lodge

GV II

Villa, now offices. c1825, with later additions and alterations including c1970s extension to rear. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. L-shaped plan with central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 3 first-floor windows. Central entrance a 6-panel door with fanlight with radial glazing bars, semicircular Doric portico has frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice and blocking course. Ground floor has tripartite 1/1 sashes with pilaster strips between and moulded cornice, in plain reveals, with cambered-arched recess above with moulded fan motif. Continuous first-floor sill band. First floor has 6/6 sashes in wider, shallow, cambered-arched recesses. Wide eaves on brackets. End stacks. Attic has round-arched roof dormers with casement windows. Right return has 1:2:1 first-floor windows; central full-height bow; 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise ground-floor has tripartite 2/2 between 1/1 sash with fluted pilaster strips between and in tooled reveals. INTERIOR: not inspected. Externally this is an interesting villa design, the fans set into the tympanae being an unusual feature and the bowed return bay and front porch giving it a more 3-dimensional quality than many other more formal and contemporary villa designs.



Listing NGR: SO9479921780

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