Broadlands House (Cheltenham And Gloucester College)

CHELTENHAM

SO9420NW THE PARK 630-1/26/902 (West side) 14/12/83 No.22 Broadlands House (Cheltenham and Gloucester College) (Formerly Listed as: THE PARK No.22 Broadlands House)

GV II

Villa, now college. c1833-60. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attic, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing throughout includes plinth, quoins to angles, moulded first-floor band, moulded frieze; ground-floor windows have cornice on console brackets; to front facade, windows have tooled architraves. Central entrance, flight of 6 roll-edged steps to 4-panel door (upper round-arched fielded panels), with round-arched sidelights and cambered overlight with margin-lights and coloured glass, within solid porch with round-arched opening on imposts with tooled arch to head, Doric pilasters to angles, tooled frieze and dentil cornice, blocking course; round-arched windows to sides. 2/2 sashes where original. Wide eaves on brackets. Gabled attic dormers interrupt eaves and have 1/1 sashes. Returns and rear have 5 first-floor windows. 2/2 sashes to first floor and 1/1 sashes to ground floor. Blind boxes and louvred shutters remain to rear and to left return. Conservatory to rear interrupts 3 ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: retains contemporary fittings including: open-well staircase with iron balusters with ornate scrolled balusters and wreathed handrail; ceiling cornices and roses, shutters, etc. Painted Egyptian frieze in hall now partly covered by paper. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Park had been laid out by 1833 by its owner Thomas Billings as an oval tree-lined drive with a central park which for a short period in the mid-C19 became a zoological garden. In 1839 the development was bought by Samuel Daukes who continued the building. This is one of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's design for Regent's Park in London (1809-11). Until 1895 Broadlands House was known as Fulwood House. Its C19 owners included Genl C Fuller of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and Surgeon Major J Newton of the Indian Medical Service. During the Second

World War it was owned by St Mary's College and occupied by the Ministry of Labour. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Sampson A: The Historic Buildings of Cheltenham and Gloucester College: 1991-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271).

Listing NGR: SO9408820892