191, London Road

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9621SW LONDON ROAD 630-1/29/77 (South West side) 14/12/83 No.191 (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South West side) Charlton Park Junior School)

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House, later school, now restaurant. c1826. For Charles Cooke Higgs; later additions and alterations include C20 ballroom to rear; conversion to restaurant c1994. Stucco over brick with concealed hipped slate roof. PLAN: 2 storeys, 4-window main range with 2-lower-storey, 3-window service wing to left. EXTERIOR: main range: full-height Ionic pilasters to ends and to either side of entrance bay; frieze, architrave, dentil cornice and blocking course. Off-centre right entrance a Roman Doric distyle porch with frieze, architrave and pediment, double part-glazed and panelled doors in tooled surround. 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills throughout, those to ground floor have cornices on consoles. Service wing: 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills; frieze, cornice and blocking course. Right return has similar architraves to main range, blind window and glazed doors to ground floor and 6/6 sashes to first floor. INTERIOR: entrance hall has inner entrance with pilasters with anthemion capitals, embellished cornice and frieze with corbels and fleurons. Wide open-well staircase with ornate iron balusters. Embellished cornices to ground floor rooms, more simply moulded cornices to first floor. Shutters to most windows. 3 Regency marble fireplaces, 1 to ground floor, 2 to first floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Cooke Higgs was patron of the Church of the Holy Apostles (qv). (Paget M (ed), Charlton Kings Local History Society: A History of Charlton Kings: Gloucester: 1988-: 88).

Listing NGR: SO9638621118