DOURO HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WITH ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO RIGHT
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104282
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- Statutory Address:
- DOURO HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WITH ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO RIGHT, 6, DOURO ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOURO HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WITH ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO RIGHT, 6, DOURO 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 93998 21963
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9321NE DOURO ROAD
630-1/16/304 (East side)
12/03/55 No.6
Douro House and attached railings
with attached wall and gate pier to
right
(Formerly Listed as:
DOURO ROAD
Nos.1-6
Douro Lodge)
GV II
Villa with attached railings, and wall and pier to right.
c1840-50. Architects probably RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over
brick with stucco to rear, hipped slate roof has 2 tall roof
stacks with cornices and iron railings and verandah; stucco
wall and ashlar pier. Square on plan, double depth with
central hallway and single bay to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor
windows. Ashlar detailing includes quoins to angles;
continuous ground-floor balcony to garden facade and
individual ground-floor balconies to entrance facade with
bulbous balusters and shaped copings on plinths; tooled
architraves to windows, eared to first floor, those to ground
floor have cornices on consoles; moulded first-floor sill
band; frieze, cornice. Entrance, flight of steps to solid
porch to right return has paired Ionic pilasters, round-arched
openings with moulded surround with keystone and with
pilasters, round-arched windows with keystones and imposts to
sides, frieze, architrave and dentil cornice. Within a 4-panel
door with stained glass with fanlight in tooled surround with
keystone. 1/1 sashes throughout, those to ground floor,
entrance facade are tripartite with narrow 1/1 side sashes.
Wide eaves on brackets. Attics: dormers break roofline to
garden front, otherwise roof dormers with 3/3 sashes and
broken-pedimented gables. Rear has round-arched staircase
window with painted glass. First-floor windows to garden
facade have blind boxes.
INTERIOR: retains original features including tiled floor to
hall and heavily embellished cornice with scrolls and cherubs;
2 roundels probably after Thorwaldsen; full-height open-well
staircase has wreathed handrail; otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have stick
balusters. Continuous ground-floor verandah to garden front
has scroll motif to uprights and openwork frieze. Wall at
right approx 3.5m long x 1.5m high. Pier to end has shaft with
carved panel and shaped cap.
Forms a group with No.1 (Douro Lodge) (qv), Nos 2 and 3 (qv),
and Nos 4 and 5 (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: SO9400221962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474598
- 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.
End of official listing
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