Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9321SE THE PARK
630-1/21/919 (North side)
05/05/72 No.99
Osborne Lodge
(Formerly Listed as:
THE PARK
No.2
Osborne Lodge)

GV II

Villa, now flats. c1833-50 with later additions and
alterations including c1980 raising of roof, and with
extensions to right and at rear. Stucco over brick with
renewed mock slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 5 first-floor
windows arranged 3:1:3 with 2 outer full-height bows. Stucco
detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor,
moulded first-floor sill band, tooled and eared architraves to
central window and those to centre of bows to first floor, all
first-floor windows with aprons. 6/6 sashes throughout, those
to bows curved on section. Flight of steps to central
entrance, double 2-fielded-panel doors with overlight with
decorative glazing bars between 3/4 engaged fluted Doric
columns in antis. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Crowning cornice on
acanthus brackets, low parapet. Right return has 3 full-height
bows. Rear has 2-storey bow to centre with Doric pilasters
forming 'colonnade', 2 outer rectangular bays; some bows
retain 6/6 sashes, curved on section.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Park had been laid out by 1833 by its
owner Thomas Billings as an oval tree-lined drive with a
central park which for a short period in the mid C19 became a
zoological garden. In 1839 the development was bought by
Samuel Daukes who continued the building. One of the principal
developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for
Regent's Park, (1809-11) London. An interesting villa design,
distinguished by its repetitive rhythm of bowed bays.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham:
1993-: 36,92).

Listing NGR: SO9393921142

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667660

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments