18, Park Place

No. 18, Park Place is a villa dating from approximately 1830 to 1832, designed after the plans of J.B. Papworth. The construction is of ashlar facing brick, with a double-pile layout and a hipped slate roof. It is a double-depth plan with a central hallway.

The exterior is two storeys high with a basement, and has an attic storey to the rear, featuring three first-floor windows. Architectural detailing includes rusticated ground floor walls and voussoirs over the ground-floor windows. A tooled band marks the first floor and the windows have tooled architraves. End pilasters have incised tooling. The first floor windows are 6/6 sashes; the ground floor windows are tripartite, with a 6/6 sash flanked by 2/2 sashes. Basement windows are 8/8 sashes, all with tooled surrounds and sills; ground-floor sills also have tooling. A flight of six roll-edged steps leads to the central entrance, where a three-fielded-panel door, the lower panel with a fluted surround, is flanked by sidelights and has a cambered overlight with a decorative circle motif in the glazing bars. This entrance is sheltered by an Ionic porch with two pairs of columns, an architrave, frieze, and pediment. The building has wide eaves. The left return features a 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing to the head. The attic has 4/8 sashes. The rear elevation retains some 6/6 sashes.

The interior retains original features, including an open-well staircase with alternate stick and embellished balusters; however, the remainder of the interior was not inspected.

Park Place was developed by 1832. According to Verey, the street is composed mainly of detached or semi-detached villas with neo-Greek detailing, some bearing a strong resemblance to Papworth's designs for a house for Captain Capel in Cheltenham. Nos. 16 and 18 are noted as particularly representative.