THE KNOWLE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1104296
Date first listed: 02-Apr-1990
Statutory Address: THE KNOWLE, GRIFFITHS AVENUE
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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)
National Grid Reference: SO 92731 22075
Summary
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History
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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
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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.
End of official listing