1, Queens Road

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE QUEEN'S ROAD 630-1/16/769 (North side) 30/09/97 No.1

GV II

Villa. c1830-34. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stuccoed ridge stacks with cornices; iron balconies. A 3-sided design. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 4 first-floor windows. Right end, wider bay breaks forwards. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves to windows, those to first floor on feet. First floor has three 1/1 sashes, right blind opening. Ground floor has tripartite window with 1/1 sashes at left and blind, round-arched window at right with keystone. Off-centre entrance a 4-panel door with overlight in Doric pillared porch with entablature. Blind openings to basement. Wide eaves on brackets. Right return has 4 first-floor windows, all 1/1 sashes in tooled architraves and with feet to first floor, the third, first-floor window is blind. Basement has 1/1 sashes. Rear (garden) facade has 6 first-floor windows, the 3 to left are in full-height canted bay. Mainly 1/1 sashes in tooled architraves, those to first floor on feet. Ground floor has French windows to centre of bay. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Right and rear returns have Carron Company heart-and-anthemion motif continuous balconies to ground floor; further individual balcony to canted angle. Steps down from French doors have stick balusters with wreathed handrail. Balcony to right return on embellished brackets; that to rear on stanchions. To front entrance a tent-roofed hood on embellished scroll brackets. HISTORICAL NOTE: shown as built and called 'Westall' on Merrett's Map of 1834. Occupies a prominent corner site at the junction with Lansdown Road, a major approach to Cheltenham. (Pollock K: Notes).

Listing NGR: SO9382821714