Tyndale And Clarence Lodge And Attached Railings

These are a pair of semi-detached villas, Tyndale and Clarence Lodge, with attached railings, built in 1834. They were likely designed by Robert Stokes and are situated on the south side of Clarence Road, Cheltenham. The villas have stucco exteriors over brickwork, with concealed roofs, brick and stucco central stacks, and iron railings and balconies.

The architectural style is two storeys with an attic to Tyndale, and basements. They have a six-window range on the first floor (three windows per house), with porches on the ground floor and recessed first floors. Pilaster strips decorate the ground floor of the central four-window range, surmounted by rusticated segmental arches creating shallow window recesses. The first-floor band is topped by Ionic columns between the windows at each end and in the central range. Further detailing includes an architrave, frieze, cornice, and blocking course. The windows are predominantly 6/6 sash windows in tooled architraves, except for the basement windows which are 8/8 sashes.

Flights of roll-edged steps lead to part-glazed doors; Tyndale has an overlight, and Clarence Lodge features a fanlight within a shallow distyle Doric porch, both with a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, cornice and blocking course. Attic dormers are present at the rear. The interior remains uninspected.

Subsidiary features include stick balusters and a wreathed handrail at Clarence Lodge, and lancet railings to the left of Tyndale. Balconies on the ground floor, supported by fluted stucco pillars, have a scrolled lozenge pattern derived from the designs of Sir Lawrence N Cottingham.

These villas were originally known as 1 and 2 Pittville Terrace North, and were part of the Pittville Estate developed between 1825 and 1842 under the direction of John Forbes. Clarence Road was renamed after the Duke of Clarence, who later became King William IV in 1830. Tyndale was sold to James de Vitre for £1600 in December 1834, and Clarence Lodge was sold to Mary Carden for £1410 in October 1835.