Arle Court House
ARLE COURT HOUSE, 23, KINGSMEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245523
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Arle Court House
- Statutory Address:
- ARLE COURT HOUSE, 23, KINGSMEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245523
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Arle Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARLE COURT HOUSE, 23, KINGSMEAD ROAD
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.
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:
- ARLE COURT HOUSE, 23, KINGSMEAD ROAD
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 92933 23735
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SW KINGSMEAD ROAD 630-1/1/428 (North side) 14/12/83 No.23 Arle Court House
II
House. Incorporates part of the Elizabethan Arle Manor (aka Arle Court) (dismantled 1880). Present front probably C17 or early C18, with earlier, C16, origins to rear and later alterations including C19 fenestration. Red brick in English bond with hipped slate roof, extension to rear partly ashlar, rear right stucco stack; iron porch. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows with single-storey, 2-bay extension at left. 3rd and 5th openings are blocked to first floor with cambered arches and to second floor with soldier arch; 5th ground-floor opening is blind with cambered arch. First bay has 2/2 sashes, otherwise tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes, these in eared stucco architraves. Central entrance a 4-flush-panel door with transom light. Rear extension: 2 pairs of C16 mullion and transom windows with rebated chamfers, panel between and a string over. Left return has casement windows and blocked opening under cambered arches. Left extension has two casement windows under elliptical arches and with tall front internal stack. INTERIOR: noted as retaining some earlier fabric though much altered. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: porch has scroll motif with scrolls to frieze and lead roof. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-; Welsh AM: Bristol and Glos. Archaeological Society: 'Old Arle Court': 1913-).
Listing NGR: SO9293323735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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