51 AND 53, HIGH STREET

51 AND 53, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104352
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
51 AND 53, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
51 AND 53, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104352
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
51 AND 53, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
51 AND 53, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
51 AND 53, HIGH STREET

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 95215 22155

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW HIGH STREET 630-1/14/403 (North East side) Nos.51 AND 53

GV II

House, now 2 shops. c1830-50 with later additions and alterations, including c1900 ground-floor shop front. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and iron balustrade. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves to windows; second-floor sills on feet. First floor has outer 1/1 sashes between tripartite window with 1/1 sashes. Second floor has four 1/1 sashes. All sashes are horned; plain reveals. Crowning cornice and low, coped parapet. Ground floor: continuous frontage incorporates entrance to passage at left, a plank door, then 2 plate-glass windows on brick plinths, canted in to off-centre left entrances with glazed doors and lower raised and fielded panel; pilasters to ends and slender columnette-mullions, with stained glass frieze over windows in basket-arched surround; continuous frieze and blind box. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous ornate balustrade surmounts ground floor. Forms a group with Nos 55 and 57, The Restoration Inn (qv).



Listing NGR: SO9522022159

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
474757
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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