Cleeve View House

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW EVESHAM ROAD 630-1/6/313 (West side) 12/03/55 No.40 Cleeve View House (Formerly Listed as: EVESHAM ROAD (West side) No.40 South Cleeve)

GV II

Villa now flats. 1836-7, by John Quarrell and Richard Wright, bricklayers. Stucco over brick with slate roof, stucco stacks and iron verandah. Double depth plan; side stairway with service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement and attics to gables, with 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor, drawn into voussoirs over openings, windows in cambered arched recesses and similar recess to entrance; cornice and low parapet with copings. 6/6 sashes to first and second floors, those to first floor are taller, 1/1 sashes to ground floor. Windows to second floor have blind boxes. Basement has 8/8 sash and glazed door. Entrance at right, flight of renewed steps to recessed 4-fielded-panel door with side-lights and overlight with decorative glazing bars. End stacks with copings, 2 to each end, parapet ramps upwards to these. Attic to left gable a round-headed fixed light. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor continuous verandah has quatrefoil and lozenge motif to balcony and uprights. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 67).

Listing NGR: SO9525423071