Parklands

Parklands is a house built in 1823, constructed from limestone ashlar and rendered brick, topped with slate roofs featuring deep boxed eaves and brick stacks. The building has a double-depth villa plan with the entrance located on the northwest front, leading to a vestibule and stair hall. The main rooms include a double drawing room on the right, which has a bow window to the southwest and a bay window to the southeast, along with a dining room situated in the southeast corner. There is also a northeast service block.

The exterior features moulded architraves around the windows and a double plat band across the main elevations. A portico with a distyle in antis and a pediment leads to a six-panelled door flanked by margin lights and an overlight. The tripartite sashes are set within a square bay window supported by console brackets. The southwest elevation displays three windows in a bow window to the left, with 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor and later 19th-century plate glass sashes and French windows on the ground floor. To the right, there are two plate-glass sashes, with the ground floor window featuring console brackets beneath a cornice. The southeast elevation includes a canted bay to the left with 6/6 and flanking 4/6-pane first-floor windows, along with a cornice above a French window and flanking plate-glass sashes on the ground floor. To the right, there is a semi-circular arched stair window with a plate-glass sash and a tripartite glazing-bar sash above two ground-floor windows, which also have consoles to the cornice. The service range has a northwest elevation with seven windows and an eight-window southeast elevation, both featuring glazing bar sashes beneath triple-keyed flat arches.

Inside, the villa showcases moulded dados and architraves, along with finely-moulded cornices and ceiling roses throughout. The octagonal vestibule includes corner recesses and a Greek Revival chimneypiece designed like a stele. The hall boasts a marble floor with a mahogany handrail and an open-well stair featuring alternate lozenges on a cast-iron balustrade. There are fine marble and stone classical chimneypieces on both the ground and first floors.

Parklands is a notable villa in the classical tradition, reflecting contemporary architectural developments in Bristol and Cheltenham.