page_title: Albert Estcourt
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Estcourt / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hillfield House, Gloucester 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.
context_page_description: Albert Estcourt was a builder in Gloucestershire, England, in the 19th century who with his brother, and later on his own, constructed a number of notable buildings in the county and across southern England.
  Some of his buildings are Hillfield House in Gloucester, now grade II listed; major restoration work at St Mary's Church, Cheltenham; the Oxford University Cricket Club Pavilion to a design by Thomas Graham Jackson; and Clouds House in Wiltshire.
context_section_description: Albert Estcourt was at first in partnership with his brother Oliver Estcourt who died in 1871. Oliver was responsible for the construction in 1858 of the grade II listed Gloucester Court of Probate by Thomas Fulljames of Fulljames & Waller.
  Estcourt worked with leading architects on buildings throughout Gloucestershire and across southern England. His works include Hillfield House in Gloucester (1867–69) to a design by John Giles for the timber merchant Charles Walker, now grade II listed and described as the "most elaborate Victorian house in Gloucester"; major restoration work at St Mary's Church, Cheltenham (1877); and in 1880–1881 the Oxford University Cricket Club Pavilion (the Parks Pavilion) to a design by Thomas Graham Jackson.
  A major work was the construction in 1881–1886 of Clouds House in Wiltshire, now grade II* listed with Historic England.
caption: Hillfield House, Gloucester, built by Albert Estcourt, 1867–1869[5]
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