Eaton Lodge (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education)
EATON LODGE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION), 5, THE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388010
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton Lodge (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education)
- Statutory Address:
- EATON LODGE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION), 5, THE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388010
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton Lodge (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education)
- Statutory Address 1:
- EATON LODGE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION), 5, THE PARK
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EATON LODGE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION), 5, THE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94222 21096
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SW THE PARK 630-1/22/898 (East side) 18/04/94 No.5 Eaton Lodge (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education) (Formerly Listed as: THE PARK (East side) No.5 Eaton Lodge)
GV II
Villa, now college building of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. c1833-50. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and Cotswold stone basement. Double depth with central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attic, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes end rusticated pilasters, moulded architraves to windows, those to ground floor with cornices on modillions, moulded first-floor sill band, moulded band over first floor, crowning cornice. Wide eaves. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Ground floor has tripartite windows with 2/2 horizontal-pane between 2/2 sashes. Gabled attic dormers interrupt eaves. Attic and basement have replacement casement windows. Entrance: flight of steps with balustrade to central 3-panel door (upper panels fielded, lower flush) with sidelights and overlight with margin-lights, within doorcase of Doric pilasters, frieze and cornice with flattened 'pediment'. Rear retains tall staircase sash with margin-lights. INTERIOR: retains plasterwork including frieze to hall with egg-and-dart cornice, and room to left has cornice and vine ceiling frieze; joinery includes 6-panel doors, open-well staircase with rod and bobbin balusters and run-out handrail with lion's paw foot; otherwise 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 architect Samuel Daukes who continued the building. This was one of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for Regent's Park, London (1809-11). Eton Lodge (originally known as Eton Villa) became Eton Lodge Hotel in 1942 and was taken over by St Mary's College in 1956.
It holds an important position on the edge of The Park, an important development of mid-C19 villas. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271).
Listing NGR: SO9422221096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The English Town, (1990), 270, 271
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 36, 92
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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