Description

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)

II

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666314

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets