Belgrave House with attached railings and pier
Belgrave House, Imperial Square, Cheltenham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104373
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Belgrave House with attached railings and pier
- Statutory Address:
- Belgrave House, Imperial Square, Cheltenham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104373
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Belgrave House with attached railings and pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- Belgrave House, Imperial Square, Cheltenham
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Belgrave House, Imperial Square, Cheltenham
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 94728 22152
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2022 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
SO9422SE
630-1/13/420
CHELTENHAM
IMPERIAL SQUARE (North side)
Belgrave House with attached railings and pier
12/03/55
GV
II
Boarding house, now restaurant with attached railings and pier. c1820-34. Stucco over brick with concealed roof with iron railings and window box; renewed ashlar pier.
PLAN: central hallway with curved rooms to right; irregular entrance facade.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, on basement, two first floor windows, with one-and-a-half storey outshut added to right. Stucco detailing includes paired Ionic pilasters to right end; first floor band; continuous crowning architrave with blocking course, raised to centre as feature with two stacks. Entrance: flight of horseshoe steps to off-centre left entrance in tetrastyle Ionic porch with entablature and solid balcony over; double six-panel doors, overlight has margin glazing with coloured glass; left return of porch has four/four sash. First floor has eight/eight sash above porch and six/six sash to right. Entrance to basement to left of porch. Right return has full-height bow with central break forward. Ground floor has tripartite 6/6 between two/two sash; six/six first-floor sash; eight/eight basement sash; all curved on section.
INTERIOR: retains many original features including plasterwork and joinery: ground floor has deep acanthus frieze with scroll motif to ceiling and central rose; egg-and-dart cornices; dogleg staircase with rod and bobbin balusters and wreathed handrail with embellished tread ends, to first floor the staircase has run-out handrail with lion's paw to foot; four-panel doors; hallway has Coalbrookdale tile floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings abut at right with gate to forecourt with renewed rusticated pier with pineapple finial to return. Further spearhead railings to sides of steps and panelled balustrade with lozenge scrolls. Ground floor window box to bow has scrolls.
HISTORICAL NOTE: villa shown on Merrett's Map of 1834, indicating that this was originally a single build with Nos 108-118 Promenade (qv) with which it forms a good group. Rowe in his Guide to Cheltenham (written in 1845 but published in 1850) refers to this building as `Mesdames Haydon and Shaw's Boarding House', noting, `the internal accommodations are on the best scale'.
Listing NGR: SO9472922147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-1969, (), 19
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
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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