Rokeby Nursing Home
ROKEBY NURSING HOME, MALVERN PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103831
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Rokeby Nursing Home
- Statutory Address:
- ROKEBY NURSING HOME, MALVERN PLACE
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- Date:
- 2007-01-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/16249/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103831
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Rokeby Nursing Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROKEBY NURSING HOME, MALVERN PLACE
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:
- ROKEBY NURSING HOME, MALVERN PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94070 22071
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SW MALVERN PLACE 630-1/12/508 (North side) 01/04/82 Rokeby Nursing Home
GV II
Villa, now nursing home. c1834. Architects RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over brick with slate roof and ashlar party-wall and ridge stacks. Domestic Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, that part to right on basement, 6 first-floor windows arranged 2:4. Right part is taller and breaks forward with further central breakforward to this part, crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course. Paired windows throughout with central chamfered mullion, those to ground floor have transoms with French windows with overlights to left and casements to right, those to first floor have 1/1 sashes, all in chamfered surrounds; 3rd and 5th windows have hoodmoulds. Loggia across left part and entrance has 4-centred arched openings, arch to porch on corbels and with shaped lancet lights. Entrance: 8-panel, part-glazed double doors and shaped overlight in 4-centred surround and within porch has rib-vaulted ceiling and further double, part-glazed shaped doors. Garden facade: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Right end breaks forward and is gabled with kneeler and shaped copings. Ground floor has canted bay to breakforward with 1:2:1 mullion and transom windows and casements. Otherwise ground floor has 2-light mullion and transom windows with French windows and overlights. 2-light windows to first floor have 1/1 sashes and to breakforward are French windows and overlights under shaped hoodmould and with shield. All in chamfered surrounds. INTERIOR: open-well staircase has alternately embellished and stick balusters and wreathed handrail; oval skylight to hall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: remains of shutters to ground floor. Abuts Aban Court, Malvern Road (qv) with which the garden facade forms a continuous design. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Lansdown development initiated by Pearson Thompson.
Listing NGR: SO9406222075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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