Premises of Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society
PREMISES OF CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088784
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OF CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088784
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OF CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, THE SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OF CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1912325789
Details
1.
5224 THE SQUARE
(west side)
Premises of Cheltenham and
Gloucester Building Society
(formerly listed as County
Court Offices)
SP 1925 NW 2/6 25.8.60
II GV
2.
Early C18, ground floor altered C19. Ashlar with Cotswold stone roof. Formal
Queen Anne town house. Two storeys and attics, 4 windows. Ground floor extensively
adapted: moulded surround to left hand window, 2 large modern glazing bar sashes with
unusual modern segmental cornices to right. Narrow panelled door with unusual modern
pediment and modern pilasters. First floor string course. Four sashes with glazing
bars above, with moulded stone architraves and bull-nosed cills. Roof with stone
verges and ashlar end stacks, 3 original dormers with leaded casements, the outer
ones pedimented, the centre one with segmental pediment.
U-plan, right hand rear rising has an upper cruck; front roof has 2 collar-trusses
with king posts and through purlins. Recent work uncovered a painted emblem of the
Apothecaries Company; restored by Mrs Eve Baker and now set on internal wall close
to original position.
Listing NGR: SP1912325789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 126388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Battlefields Register,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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