Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW EVESHAM ROAD
630-1/6/312 (West side)
12/03/55 No.38
Hotel on the Park
(Formerly Listed as:
EVESHAM ROAD
No.38
Cleveland House)

GV II

Villa now hotel. c1830 for Theodore Gwinnet, solicitor, with
later additions and alterations including extension to rear of
1993. Brick with stucco facades and hipped slate roof; tall
left end stuccoed stacks with cornices. Double-depth plan with
central hallway.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 5 first-floor windows; with
2-lower-storey, single bay to right. End window-bays break
forward. Stucco detailing includes plinth, Doric pilasters
through ground and first floors to end of breakforwards,
surmounted by entablature and with pilasters to second floor,
cornice and blocking course; ground and first-floor windows
have tooled architraves. Central distyle Ionic porch with
pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and blocking course, now
with side walls and glazing with margin-lights; within a
6-panel door with sidelights and cambered overlight with
batwing and circle glazing bars. 6/6 windows except ground
floor has tall 1/1 sashes, all in plain reveals and with
sills. Left return has 4-window facade with blind openings and
Doric pilasters between bays. Rear has tall round-arched
staircase sash, 6/6 with radial glazing to head.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery including 6-fielded-panel
doors in reeded architraves and with fleurons to corners and
fielded-panel shutters to windows. Original plasterwork
includes acanthus modillions to hall and embellished cornices
and ceiling friezes to ground-floor rooms, that to right with
grape motif. Narrow-open-well staircase with carved tread ends
has stick balusters and unwreathed handrail. Marble
fireplaces.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area
undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42. Theodore Gwinnet had
had Albion House, North Place (qv) built c1805.
Occupies a prominent corner site on one of the main approach
roads into Cheltenham.
(Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 67).

Listing NGR: SO9524523065

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398269

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House