Hadley House And Attached Balustrade

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW BAYSHILL ROAD 630-1/12/192 (West side) 12/03/55 Hadley House and attached balustrade

GV II

Villa and attached balustrade. c1839-42 with later additions and alterations including c1950-70 range at rear. Brick with painted stucco facades and slate roof, with iron balustrade. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Full-height Doric pilasters between windows and to ends, frieze, architrave and cornice. First-floor band with recessed panel between pilasters to outer bays. Central pedimented portico of 2 pairs of Ionic columns and 2 engaged Doric pilasters, frieze, cornice. Flight of renewed roll-edged steps to 4-panel door between side-lights under continuous overlight with glazing bars. Ground floor has tripartite windows with 1/1 between narrow 1/1 sashes; 1/1 sashes with lugs throughout in plain reveals and with sills, those to first floor have tooled architraves. Central and rear stacks. Returns have mainly 2/2 sashes, some blind; ground-floor surrounds are tooled. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balustrade to sides of porch has anthemion motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bayshill Estate was developed by a joint stock company which purchased land from the Skillicorne family in 1837. By 1843, Henry Davies described, 'a number of detached villas .. several of which are occupied by resident families of affluence and station, and others are in an unfinished state'. The company was bankrupt by c1845 when architect Samuel Onley bought much Bayshill property, and so Pevsner suggests that other houses in Bayshill Road were built to his designs. Little, one of a 'superb group (of villas) that make Bayshill Road one of the great roads for architecture in all England'. (Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 76; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 147).

Listing NGR: SO9440822101