Charlton Manor

CHARLTON KINGS

SO92SE ASHLEY ROAD 630-1/2/2 (West side) 14/12/83 Charlton Manor

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House. 1864, with later addition to left return. Possibly by Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer, for Charles Andrews (speculator). Stone rubble laid 'crazily' with ashlar dressings, ornately tiled roof and ashlar stacks with cornices; range to left has mock timber-framing and render. 'Horrid' Gothic in 2 parts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with stepped and barge-boarded gables over. Chamfered plinth. First floor: oriel window to centre between mullioned and transomed windows with relieving arches. Ground floor: central entrance in porch with double pointed, part-glazed doors between sidelights, cusped windows to sides of porch and pointed plank door within in chamfered surround. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows to either side of porch, those to right with cusped upper lights under relieving arches. 2 gable return. Left return has jettied extension, mullion and transom windows. Angled bay at angle with original part. Projecting octagonal bay to left linking with former billiard room. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Battledown Estate was laid out in 1858 by Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer. Charlton Manor, originally known as Simla Lodge, was the first house to be built and occupied on the Estate. (O'Connor DA: Battledown The Story of a Victorian Estate.: Stroud: 1992-: 74-5, 86).

Listing NGR: SO9667121629