Prestbury House Hotel

PRESTBURY HOUSE HOTEL, THE BURGAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1153317
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:
Prestbury House Hotel
Statutory Address:
PRESTBURY HOUSE HOTEL, THE BURGAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1153317
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:
Prestbury House Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
PRESTBURY HOUSE HOTEL, THE BURGAGE

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
PRESTBURY HOUSE HOTEL, THE BURGAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:
Prestbury
National Grid Reference:
SO 96758 23996

Details

SO 9624 PRESTBURY THE BURGAGE (east side)

17/53 & 19/53 Prestbury House Hotel

4.7.60

GV II

Large house now used as a hotel. Early C18 altered and extended early-mid C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone now mostly pebble-dashed with exposed quoins. Slate roof with ashlar stacks. Extension to left of main body coursed square and dressed limestone and brick with a slate roof. Rectangular plan to main body with later extensions at rear and to left. Symmetrical, 3- storey, 5-windowed facade. Twelve-pane sashes to ground and first floors. Moulded string above ground floor windows. Six-pane sashes to second floor. All windows within moulded architraves. Central C19 six panel door, upper four panels fielded. Large hall light with marginal glazing bars above. Left-hand return; double early plank door at centre within a flat-chamfered surround, small 2-light stone-mullioned casement immediately over doorway with stopped hood continued to left up to a 12-pane sash within a moulded architrave with keystone. Three stone-mullioned cross windows. Three 6-pane sashes within moulded surrounds to second floor. Early lead downpipe with segmental rainwater head. Twelve and 6-pane sashes to right-hand return of main body. Two-storey bow window to extension at rear, lit by 12-pane sashes. Main body; hipped roof with flat-centre section with off-the-ridge stacks. Interior; early C19 staircase with three stick balusters per tread wreathed handrail and decorative brackets with foliate carving to each riser . Reused C17 panelling with fluted frieze to ground floor. Similar but possibly original panelling in an upstairs room. C19 marble fireplace with frieze decorated with fruit and flowers within bow-windowed extension on ground floor. History; the house was built c1700 by the Capel family.

Listing NGR: SO9675823996

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Legacy System number:
134458
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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