NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3

NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3, 2AND 3, DOURO ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104267
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3, 2AND 3, DOURO ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104267
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3, 2AND 3, DOURO ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 3, 2AND 3, DOURO ROAD

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 94013 21914

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE DOURO ROAD 630-1/16/302 (East side) 12/03/55 Nos.2 AND 3 and attached railings to No.3 (Formerly Listed as: DOURO ROAD Nos.1-6 Douro Lodge)

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2 semi-detached villas and attached railings to No.3. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1830-50. Architects probably RW and C Jearrad. Stucco over brick with slate roof and stucco party-wall and end stacks with cornices and iron railings. Double depth plan with outer side stairhalls. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement (to centre), 8 first-floor windows, the central 4 of which break forward, and with projecting single-storey porches to end ranges; to rear the end ranges project and are of 3 storeys, with 2-storey and attics to centre, all on basement. Stucco detailing includes: quoins to angles; tooled architraves to windows: those to first floor are eared and those to ground floor have cornices on consoles and sills. Mainly 6/6 sashes, taller and with blind boxes to ground floor, 2 x 1/1 sashes to ground floor of No 3. Wide eaves on brackets; 4 attic roof dormers have casements and broken pediments. Entrances: flight of roll-edged steps to solid porches with Ionic pilasters; that to No.2 has additional projecting glazed porch with side-lights and fanlight (some coloured glass), No 3 has round-arched opening with keystone and fanlight; double 4-panel doors (that to No.2 part-glazed); frieze, cornice and blocking course. No.2 retains 4 x tall end, party-wall and lateral stacks with cornices. Right return has round-arched staircase sash. Rear: end ranges have tripartite sashes to first and second floors: 6/6 between 2/2; similar to ground floor, No.3, whilst No.2 has pair of 6/6 sashes, both with tooled architraves and cornices on consoles. Some 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: railings with stick balusters to one side of steps of No.3. Forms a group with Douro Lodge (qv), and Nos 4 and 5 (qv), and No.6, (qv) Douro Road, of overall Classical design with Italianate touches to the roof and dormers. The symmetrical design consists of 2 pairs of semi-detached villas between detached villas.

Listing NGR: SO9401821907

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.