Brooks Lodge And Attached Area Railings

CHELTENHAM

SO9420NW THE PARK 630-1/26/906 (East side) 05/05/72 No.29 Brooks Lodge and attached area railings

GV II

Villa and attached area railings. c1840, with C20 garage attached at right. Stucco over brick with hipped stucco roof, tall end stucco stacks and iron area railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes ground-floor band, horizontal rustication to ground floor with elliptical arches of voussoirs over windows; moulded first-floor band, first-floor windows have tooled architraves. Flight of 6 roll-edged steps to central entrance a part-glazed 4-panel door with side-lights and overlight within solid porch with 2 pairs of Doric pilasters, architrave, frieze and cornice with blocking course. Ground floor has tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Basement has 12/12 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have X-motif. Ground-floor window boxes. 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 schemes for Regent's Park (1809-11), London. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271).

Listing NGR: SO9412820790