HER 34953 DESCRIPTION:-

Listed Building Description:

CHARLTON KINGS SO91NE CIRENCESTER ROAD 630-1/4/49 (West side) Charlton Park Hotel (Formerly Listed as: CIRENCESTER ROAD Lilleybrook Hotel) II 30/10/79

Villa, now hotel. Mid C19 with later additions and alterations, including those of late C20; altered and remodelled late C19 by John Middleton. Stucco over brick with slate roofs.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (on basements to garden facade), 4-bay centre with pediment over 2 central windows and 2-storey, 3-window bows to outer bays. Cornices over each floor and to blocking course. Central solid portico with Doric columns and piers, 6-panel door with plain transom light. Flanking 2-and-a-half storey wings, gables treated as open pediments over arched windows, 1 + 1 window below. Windows are mainly 1/1 sashes in moulded architraves, those to bows are curved (some casements); to left range, ground floor a tripartite window. Verandah to right part. Later 2-storey projection on left-hand wing; 2-and-a-half storey projection on right hand wing and a 2-and-a-half storey, 3-bay extension to right. Garden front: the symmetrical rhythm of the elevation is clearer here than on the entrance front.

INTERIOR: entrance hall has colonnade of paired Doric columns;black and white marble floor. Open-well staircase has fluted square columns. Ground-floor rooms mainly face garden: room to right has egg-and-dart cornice, 'lobby' with 2 Ionic columns and responds; panelled partition doors lead through to centre room with Ionic columns into bay, acanthus modillion cornice; marble fireplace with shell motif. Room to left: oak panelled, fireplace with pulvinated frieze. Doors: mainly panelled with glazing and margin-lights in tooled architraves. First floor has egg-and-dart cornice, dado rail. Mainly 6-panel doors.

HISTORICAL NOTE: John Middleton was architect of several churches in Cheltenham and Charlton Kings. Listing NGR: SO 96453 19551. {Source Work 2378.}