A Guided Walk Around Pittville
This walk starts and finishes at the Pittville Pump Room, where there is ample free parking. It is about 2 miles long, and the route is shown on the map below, to which the numbers in the text refer.
As you follow the walk, note the variety of architectural styles used at Pittville, in particular the Greek and Gothic revivals, both of which were popular in England during the years in which the estate was developed. Pittville's houses were built of brick, and then fronted with either stone or (more usually) stucco, which was then painted to look like stone. Stucco lends itself to the application of intricate mouldings, and many of the houses have attractive external details, such as fluted Ionic columns and friezes of Greek motifs. Many of them are also graced by ornamental ironwork, in the form of railings, balconies, verandas and boot scrapers; although the ironwork is now painted black, it is thought that much of it was originally either gilded or painted dark green.
To see the whole guided walk, or to download it so you can print it and take it with you on a stroll round the area, go to
www.friendsofpittville.org/docs/guidedwalk.pdf.