Cleeve House And Homewood With Attached Railings

CHELTENHAM

SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1004 (North side) 05/05/72 Cleeve House and Homewood, with attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)

GV II

Villa, now divided into 2 dwellings, and attached railings. c1851-2. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, end stuccoed stacks with cornices to ends of main range, and iron balcony and railings. PLAN: main range has central hallway and range to right is set back. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3+1 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes quoins to main range, tooled architraves to windows, those to first floor are eared, hipped and with feet, those to ground floor have frieze and cornice on corbel brackets; continuous first-floor moulded sill band, moulded band above first-floor, dentil cornice to main range. First floor has 1/1 horned sashes; ground floor has 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, that to left is a tripartite window; blind boxes to ground floor. Basement has 4/4 and 3/3 between 1/1 sashes. Attic has skylights. Central entrance to main range and left entrance to right range, flights of roll-edged steps to round-arched openings with moulded heads on imposts, within are 4-panel doors with fanlights. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have embellished rods, ground-floor balustrade on plinths have alternate embellished ovals and 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 originally known as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group of similarly designed villas on West Approach Drive with Mount Sorrell (qv), Beaufort (qv) and Park Gate (qv). (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).

Listing NGR: SO9538223734