Fullwood Park

Villa, built around 1823 to 1834, and later altered, now part of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. It was likely designed by Edward Jenkins for developer James Fisher. The exterior is stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof and a rear stack in stucco with a cornice. The building has a double depth plan including a central hallway and a rear extension.

The villa is three storeys high with a basement, featuring five first-floor windows and single-storey ranges to the sides. Stucco detailing includes a first-floor band, a second-floor sill band, tooled architraves to the windows (those on the first floor having a frieze and cornice, the central one a pediment). Original 6/6 sash windows remain, in plain reveals with sills; blind boxes are still present. The central entrance has a tetrastyle Doric porch with fluted columns, triglyphs, and metopes, now glazed with double part-glazed doors, sidelights, and an overlight with glazing bars. Behind the doors are 6-panel double doors with sidelights and overlight. The end ranges project forward, featuring pilasters to the angles and a crowning entablature, with replacement 1/1 sashes in tooled surrounds with cornices on console brackets. A further range to the right has 20th-century glazed doors. The left return side contains three 6/6 windows between two 2/2 sashes. A rear extension has a two-storey canted bay with 1/1 sashes.

The interior retains original features, including a central hallway with a Minton tile floor and an open-well staircase with an iron balustrade featuring circle-and-lozenge motif balusters, a wreathed mahogany handrail, egg-and-dart with an acanthus cornice, and a skylight. Original joinery includes panelled shutters to windows and panelled doors. The building's history is linked to the development of Suffolk Square, which was built on land originally belonging to the Earl of Suffolk and later sold to James Fisher in 1823. The Square appears as built on Merrett's Map of 1834. The listed buildings in Suffolk Square comprise a distinguished group.