Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PRESTBURY ROAD
630-1/10/713 (South side)
05/05/72 Tower House

GV II

Formerly known as: Apsley House PITTVILLE CIRCUS.
Villa now flats. 1840 with later additions and alterations
including C20 attics. Edward Cope, builder. Stucco over brick
with concealed roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor
windows and 1 to 3-storey round tower at right angle. Stucco
detailing includes tooled architraves to ground-floor windows
with broken segmental 'pediments' on corbels; first-floor
band; crowning frieze, paired corbel brackets to wide eaves.
Ground floor has 2/2 horizontal-pane and 6/3 sashes; otherwise
6/6 sashes throughout, those to tower are curved on section;
all in plain reveals and with sills. Off-centre right
entrance, flight of renewed steps to distyle Doric porch with
wreaths to frieze; within a 4-panel door with divided
overlight. Tower has first- and second-floor bands and Regency
style battlements concealing attic roof lights. Left return
has 4 first-floor windows; stepped breakforward to left. All
ground-floor windows have 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes with
tooled architraves and broken pediments as front facade;
otherwise 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Cope laid out Pittville Circus in 1839-40 on
land purchased from Joseph Pitt. Tower House, originally known
as Apsley House, forms part of this development.
An unusual and distinguished villa design, one of a good group
of villas, with Sligo House (qv), and Southend House (No.32)
(qv), Prestbury Road and Nos 1 and 2 Pittville Circus, at the
important junction of Prestbury Road, Wellington Road, Albert
Road and Pittville Circus.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 151).

Listing NGR: SO9548822896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667247

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (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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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)