Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SW BAYSHILL ROAD
630-1/12/192 (West side)
12/03/55 Hadley House and attached balustrade

GV II

Villa and attached balustrade. c1839-42 with later additions
and alterations including c1950-70 range at rear. Brick with
painted stucco facades and slate roof, with iron balustrade.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Full-height Doric
pilasters between windows and to ends, frieze, architrave and
cornice. First-floor band with recessed panel between
pilasters to outer bays. Central pedimented portico of 2 pairs
of Ionic columns and 2 engaged Doric pilasters, frieze,
cornice. Flight of renewed roll-edged steps to 4-panel door
between side-lights under continuous overlight with glazing
bars. Ground floor has tripartite windows with 1/1 between
narrow 1/1 sashes; 1/1 sashes with lugs throughout in plain
reveals and with sills, those to first floor have tooled
architraves. Central and rear stacks. Returns have mainly 2/2
sashes, some blind; ground-floor surrounds are tooled.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balustrade to sides of porch has
anthemion motif.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bayshill Estate was developed by a joint
stock company which purchased land from the Skillicorne family
in 1837. By 1843, Henry Davies described, 'a number of
detached villas .. several of which are occupied by resident
families of affluence and station, and others are in an
unfinished state'. The company was bankrupt by c1845 when
architect Samuel Onley bought much Bayshill property, and so
Pevsner suggests that other houses in Bayshill Road were built
to his designs.
Little, one of a 'superb group (of villas) that make Bayshill
Road one of the great roads for architecture in all England'.
(Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 76; The Buildings of
England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of
Dean: London: 1970-: 147).

Listing NGR: SO9440822101

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666425

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)