Camden House

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW CLARENCE ROAD 630-1/10/259 (North side) 05/05/72 Camden House (Formerly Listed as: CLARENCE SQUARE (East side) Holy Trinity Vicarage)

GV II

Villa. 1834-5. Stucco over brick with flat-topped hipped slate roof and end stucco stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows and with service range set back to right. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Ground floor has 1/1 sashes, the two to right have blind boxes; all windows in plain reveals and with sills. Central entrance in distyle mutular Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes. Frieze, cornice, blocking course; stacks incorporated in raised parapet. Garden facade (west, to Clarence Square): 3-window range. first floor has 6/6 sashes in tooled architraves, otherwise 1/1 sashes and Victorian bay with tripartite 1/1 sashes. Attic to north. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery, including shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: window guards to ground floor, west facade. Blind boxes to ground floor, right of main facade. 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. Clarence Square was laid out in the late 1820s, building began in 1832. This was the vicarage for Church of the Holy Trinity, Portland Street (qv). The Square was named after the Duke of Clarence, who became William IV in 1830. Occupies a corner site at the junction of Clarence Square and Clarence Road. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 37,58).

Listing NGR: SO9512522918