Hillfield House, Gloucester
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Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 1 Feb 2014
Hillfield House is now used as a local government office and it stands in its gardens which are now a public park known as Hillfield Gardens. Pevsner describes the house as 'the most elaborate house in Gloucester'. It was built in an Italianate style by John Giles in 1867-9 for the timber merchant Charles Walker. The house is a Grade II listed building.