UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME

UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME, A38

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204423
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME
Statutory Address:: UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME, A38

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204423
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME
Statutory Address 1:: UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME, A38

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: UPLANDS RESIDENTIAL HOME, A38

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Tewkesbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 89278 34051

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 January 2023 reformat the text to current standards

SO83SE 859-1/2/386

TEWKESBURY A38, The Mythe (East side (off)) Uplands Residential Home

II

Residential home for the elderly, formerly private house. Mid to late C18, C19 additions. Rendered brickwork, asbestos-cement slate roof. A symmetrical square block with recessed centre entrance bay. Central hall with flanking rooms, transverse staircase to right.

Two storeys and basement, 2:1:2-windowed; At first floor all 12-pane sashes. Ground floor has two square projecting C19 bays with paired sashes, upper with bars, lower with plate glass. Recessed to centre a good six-panel door in fluted pilasters and moulded architrave, with fanlight, under projecting balcony carried on fluted Doric columns in antis, to flat entablature under C20 balcony railing. The portico is set on three steps with nosings, between stone balustrades to square panelled piers. The front has a moulded cornice, blocking course, and coped parapet. Return to left is plain rendered wall with a central 12-pane sash at each floor, and a C20 gabled porch over steps to basement. Two eaves stacks. A long C20 wing to the left (Uplands Cottage) is not included.

Right return has central stair window, 12-pane with radial head, and two two-light casements at each level to right. Two eaves stacks.

To left a late C19 glazed conservatory to flat roof, with central section brought forward to five-faceted bow. The back has three 12-pane sashes at first floor, above a pair of French doors, and central door in arch with fanlight, covered by glazed passageway to the attached wing.

INTERIOR has finely detailed cornices, and six-panel fielded doors in fluted architraves. Room to left has white painted fire surround with moulded mantel with swags and enrichments; in back wall is a wide elliptical-headed recess with fluted pilasters and rosettes. A similar recess in room to right has been partly covered by an inserted partition. From this room an elliptical arch gives access to the conservatory. A wide elliptical arch with fluted pilasters and moulded architrave leads to the transverse stair hall with delicate open-well stair with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. On the axis of the entrance a passage leads to good 6-panel door at the back of the building.

The house is in a prominent position on Mythe Hill, with views to and from the town.

Listing NGR: SO8927834051

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Legacy System number:: 376562
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.