Bayshill House And Lingwood House

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW BAYSHILL ROAD 630-1/12/190 (West side) 12/03/55 Bayshill House and Lingwood House

GV II*

Semi-detached villa now offices. c1839-42, probably by Samuel Onley, later additions and alterations including c1970s attic storey and range to rear. Stucco over brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement, 5 bays. Bay to left is set back and blind; entrance to third bay set back behind 2 fluted Ionic columns and Doric pilasters clasping angles. Entrance bay has 1/1 sashes, 2 to ground floor and 3 to first floor; entrance a 4-panel door with overlight. Flanking bays have tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes, those to first floor have aprons. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Left return: 2 storeys, 3 bays, that to centre set back with clasping Doric pilasters. Similar fenestration with flanking tripartite windows having 1/1 sashes. Centre has 1/1 sash above entrance, a 4-panel door with side-lights. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outer windows have blind boxes. A bold neo-Classical design, similar to Killowen House, The Limes and De La Bere House (qv). 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, in his Guide to Cheltenham, 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.' Little considers this to be part of, 'a superb group (of villas) that make Bayshill Road one of the great roads for architecture in all England'. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1992-: 147; Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 76; Hart G: A History of Cheltenham: Stroud: 1965-1990: 172-3).

Listing NGR: SO9447122184