The Knowle
THE KNOWLE, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104296
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Knowle
- Statutory Address:
- THE KNOWLE, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104296
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Knowle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KNOWLE, 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 KNOWLE, 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 92731 22075
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SW GRIFFITHS AVENUE 630-1/1/354 The Knowle 02/04/90
GV II
House. c1860-70. Probably by John Middleton. Coursed and hammer-dressed limestone with freestone dressings. Plain tile roofs, some of the gables retain stone coping. Ashlar axial and lateral stacks with moulded cornices. High Victorian Gothic. PLAN: deep narrow plan with principal rooms at the back. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north-west front with 2 gables and buttresses on cornices, moulded plinth and string courses. Moulded 2-centre-arched doorway on left with 2-light cusped window to right and oriel above on moulded stone corbel; segmentally-arched windows on right with stone mullions and transoms. Plinth and string-course moulding continue on left and right returns, the left (north-east) elevation has 3 gables, the large right-hand gable has canted bay, Gothic pointed arch windows and lateral stack on left rising from buttress, and small triangular oriel to right on moulded corbel. Rear (south-east) elevation has gabled service wing on right. Stone mullion windows, some with transoms and simple cusped tracery. INTERIOR: reported as including principal ground-floor rooms with Gothic stone chimneypieces and elaborate moulded ceiling cornices. The main staircase has stick balusters and newel post with carved lion sejant finial. HISTORICAL NOTE: a similar design to Granleys (qv) which was built for Revd Griffiths, vicar of Church of St Mark, Church Road (qv), 1860-66 by John Middleton. Granleys (qv) and The Knowle form a good group.
Listing NGR: SO9273122075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474663
- 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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