GILLINGHAM TQ76NE MEDWAY ROAD, Brompton 686-1/7/22 (South East side) 21/12/73 No.14 GV II Villa now offices. c1839-42 with restorations c1980s. Ashlar with hipped slate roof. PLAN: double depth, square on plan with central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2-and-a-half storeys with attics and basement, 3 first-floor windows. Basement has moulded string-course surmounted by quoins to angles; first-floor moulded sill band; moulded second-floor band; wide eaves on scroll brackets which interrupt cornice. Central Doric porch with 2 pairs of columns and pilasters, triglyphs and metopes to frieze. Flight of steps to replacement doors with overlight in tooled architrave. Ground floor has tripartite windows: 6/6 between 2/2 sashes with sills and cornices on consoles; first floor has 6/6 sashes throughout; all in tooled architraves. Second floor has small casement windows. Attic dormers have 3 pedimented dormers with 3/3 sashes. Left return has 6/6 sashes to ground floor and basement in tooled architraves, those to ground floor have sills and cornices on consoles. INTERIOR: includes: central hallway, open-well staircase with ornate iron balustrade and wreathed handrail. Embellished cornices to ground floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Bayshill Estate was developed by a joint stock company who purchased the land from the Skillicorne family in 1837. By 1843 Henry Davies, in his Guide to Cheltenham, 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'. Little considers this part of, `a superb group (of villas) that make Bayshill Road one of the great roads for architecture in all England'. A Classical villa which with its low hipped roof and bracketed eaves exhibits some of the Italianate style characteristic of many mid C19 villas. Listing NGR: TQ7713069161