Normanhurst

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE CHRISTCHURCH ROAD 630-1/16/239 (North West side) 14/12/83 No.67 Normanhurst

II

Villa, now residential home. 1882 for the Smith family. Ashlar facades over brick and slate roof. Dutch Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3+1 bays, all with gables, the principal 3 break forward (these outer ones twice). Central bay of main section is a tower porch with pyramidal roof, the outer ones stepped, right hand bay plain. 1/1 sash windows with panels of carved ornament to sides with flowers and birds and, on first floor, sunburst-motif hoods with lions' masks in them; shallow pediments to ground floor windows. Arched central doorway, 6-panel arched double doors, upper panels glazed, lion mask handles. Tall ashlar stacks with cornices to ends and centre, 6 altogether, some rebuilt. INTERIOR: photographs c1990 show contemporary mouldings and fittings (marble fireplaces, stained glass stair window), open-well staircase with turned balusters. Coalbrookdale tile floor to entrance hall. 6-panel doors. A most unusual and distinctive choice of style. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 89).

Listing NGR: SO9363721926