The Granleys
THE GRANLEYS, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104295
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Granleys
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRANLEYS, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104295
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Granleys
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRANLEYS, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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:
- THE GRANLEYS, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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 92663 22116
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SW GRIFFITHS AVENUE 630-1/1/353 The Granleys 02/04/90
GV II
House, now residential home; formerly vicarage to Church of St Mark. c1860-70. Probably designed by John Middleton, for Revd Griffiths. Coursed and hammer-dressed limestone with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with stone coped gable ends. Ashlar axial and gable end stacks with cornices. PLAN: double-depth with principal front rooms either side of central entrance hall, leading to central stair well and with service rooms to rear right. High Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 4-window gabled front. Left gable end has canted bay window on ground floor. Large gabled half dormer off-centre and gabled porch below to right of centre. Left hand (south-east) return: 2 similar half dormers and projecting gable to left with canted bay on ground floor, all windows on this elevation with gable to right of centre and windows on right with cusped lights. All windows have stone mullions and transoms. INTERIOR: noted as including original main stairs with stop-chamfered newels with brattished finials and arcaded balusters. Room to left of entrance hall has moulded ceiling beams on corbels and chimneypiece with colonnettes. HISTORICAL NOTE: Granleys was built for Revd Griffiths, vicar (from 1860-66) of the Church of St Mark, Church Road (qv) (by John Middleton). Forms a group with The Knowle (qv).
Listing NGR: SO9266322116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474662
- 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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