Park Gate

CHELTENHAM

SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1006 (North side) 05/05/72 Park Gate (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)

GV II

Formerly known as: Lorraine House WEST APPROACH DRIVE. Villa. c1851-2. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and end stuccoed stacks with cornices, iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor windows, and with single-storey porch to right. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles, windows have tooled architraves, those to first floor have ears, shoulders and feet; floating cornices to ground floor, moulded first-floor sill band raised beneath windows, moulded band above first floor, dentil cornice; moulded dentil cornice to porch. Ground floor has 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, that to left is tripartite; first floor has 1/1 lugged sashes. Basement has C20 fixed-light casements. Entrance to right in set-back porch, flight of roll-edged steps to round-arched opening with tooled head on imposts, within a 4-panel door. Right return has 6/6 sash in tooled, eared architrave; return to porch has blind 3-window arcade with imposts and tooled round-arched heads. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balcony to ground floor on plinths has embellished rods. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Pittville development, completed after Joseph Pitt's death in 1842. Originally planned as Beaufort Place and laid out as West Spa Approach, c1844, it was not part of John Forbes's original plan for the estate. The houses along this Drive were known originally as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group with Mount Sorrell (qv), Beaufort (qv), Cleeve House and Homewood (qv), West Approach Drive. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).

Listing NGR: SO9537723713