Rodney Lodge With Attached Railings And Gate

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW RODNEY ROAD 630-1/14/785 (North West side) 12/03/55 No.9 Rodney Lodge with attached railings and gate

GV II

Villa, now college, with attached railings and gate. 1809 for Robert Hughes, with later additions and alterations. Stucco over brick with slate roof, brick stacks. PLAN: 3 rooms deep with service range at rear and right side stairwell. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes 4 full-height fluted pilasters with decorative acanthus capitals, to ends and between windows, frieze and cornice; gable end is decoratively treated with 2 pilaster strips and ramped angles, copings. Central first-floor 6/6 sash and replacement 2/1 sash to ground floor at right, otherwise blind openings, all in plain reveals and with sills. Central entrance, 6-panel door with side-lights, Greek key frieze and fanlight with radial glazing in fluted surround and within distyle Ionic porch with architrave, cornice and blocking course. Attics to right return, round-arched roof dormers with casement windows. Right return has 6/6 sashes. Left return: 7 first-floor windows, of which 3 to centre are in full-height bow and curved on section. 6/6 sashes throughout; blind boxes remain to ground floor of bow; wide eaves on brackets. Right return has further entrance a 6-flush-panel door with overlight. INTERIOR: retains original joinery including panelled shutters, double doors to hall with margin-lights and fanlight, in fluted architrave with fleurons. Cornices with acanthus motif. Room with bow has Regency fireplace. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: scrolled railings at right and gate with arrowhead bars. HISTORICAL NOTE: next to site of Assembly Rooms. The house is shown on the Post Office Map of 1820 and can be clearly seen on Merrett's Map of 1834. A distinguished villa design. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 23).

Listing NGR: SO9501522323