Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW BAYSHILL ROAD 630-1/17/197 (West side) 12/03/55 Windsor House

GV II

Villa, now offices. c1839-50 with later additions and alterations including c1950-70 range at rear. Painted stucco with hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 5 first-floor windows, the outer bays break forward. Plinth surmounted by 2-storey Doric pilasters between windows and clasping angles, frieze, architrave and cornice, blocking course. Central flight of roll-edged steps, tetra-style pedimented Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes to frieze at sides. Within, double panelled doors and overlight. 1/1 sashes with lugs in plain reveals with sills, those to first-floor on feet throughout main floors. Attics have casement windows. Returns have 5-window range, similar Doric pilasters to end bays; first bays blind, otherwise 1/1 and 2/2 sashes. Walls ramped down to end of right return. INTERIOR: includes embellished cornices, open-well staircase with rod and bobbin balusters, some renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bayshill estate was developed by a joint stock company which purchased land from the Skillicorne family in 1837. By 1843 Henry Davies, in his Guide to Cheltenham, described 'a number of detached villas .. several of which are occupied by resident families of affluence and station, and others are in an unfinished state.' By c1845 the company was bankrupt and Onley bought much Bayshill property so Verey suggests that other houses were built to his designs. Little describes this as part of a 'superb group (of villas) that make Bayshill Road one of the great roads for architecture in all England'. (Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 76; Hart G: A History of Cheltenham: Stroud: 1965-1990: 172-3; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146).



Listing NGR: SO9431922010

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