SANDFORD PARK HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1103818
Date first listed: 12-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment: 26-Nov-1998
Statutory Address: SANDFORD PARK HOUSE, 39 AND 41, LONDON ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: SANDFORD PARK HOUSE, 39 AND 41, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cheltenham (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: SO 95489 21840
Summary
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Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9521NW LONDON ROAD
630-1/19/479 (South side)
12/03/55 Nos.39 AND 41
Sandford Park House
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
(South side)
Nos.39 AND 41
Sirsa House (No.39) and Horton House
(No.41))
GV II
Probably originally 2 houses, now offices. c1820-30. Stucco
over brick with concealed roof and iron balcony and rear
porch.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 11 first-floor windows
arranged 3:1:3:1:3 (including three 3-window full-height
bows); service ranges to rear. Second-floor band, crowning
frieze and cornice with blocking course. 1/1 sashes throughout
in plain reveals and with sills. Off-centre left entrance,
6-panel double doors with Doric columns in antis, frieze and
wide fanlight. Rear: entrance has tent porch on web-motif
brackets.
INTERIOR: includes entrance hall at left with fluted frieze
and dentil cornice; narrow open-well staircase with stick
balusters and panels of scroll and quatrefoil ornament,
wreathed handrail; carved tread ends. Otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor continuous balustrade has
embellished rod motif with scroll panels and lattice frieze.
Right return has set-back former Doric porch with pulvinated
frieze and dentil cornice, now with sash windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Chatwin notes railings with urn finials
stamped RE and C Marshall, now missing. Shown on Merrett's Map
of 1834 as Keynsham Place.
(Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham:
1975-1984: 72; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham:
1834-).
Listing NGR: SO9550021830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 474894
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 72
Merrett, H S , Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing