Park Gate

Park Gate is a villa located on West Approach Drive in Cheltenham, built around 1851-1852. The building features stucco over brick with a hipped slate roof and end stuccoed stacks with cornices, as well as an iron balcony.

The villa is two storeys high, with a basement and attics, and has three first-floor windows along with a single-storey porch to the right. Architectural details include quoins at the corners, tooled architraves around the windows, and first-floor windows that have ears, shoulders, and feet. The ground floor has floating cornices, a moulded sill band raised beneath the windows, a moulded band above the first floor, and a dentil cornice. The ground floor windows are 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, with the left window being tripartite, while the first floor has 1/1 lugged sashes. The basement features 20th-century fixed-light casements.

The entrance is located to the right within a set-back porch, accessed by a flight of roll-edged steps leading to a round-arched opening with a tooled head on imposts, and contains a four-panel door. The right return has a 6/6 sash window in a tooled, eared architrave, and the return to the porch includes a blind three-window arcade with imposts and tooled round-arched heads.

The ground floor balcony rests on plinths and is adorned with embellished rods. Park Gate is part of the Pittville development, which was completed after Joseph Pitt's death in 1842. Originally planned as Beaufort Place and laid out as West Spa Approach around 1844, it was not included in John Forbes's original plan for the estate. The houses along this drive were initially known as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Park Gate forms a group with Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, and Homewood on West Approach Drive.