2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET, 271-277, HIGH STREET, 2, SWINDON ROAD
2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245586
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET, 271-277, HIGH STREET, 2, SWINDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245586
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET, 271-277, HIGH STREET, 2, SWINDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2, SWINDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- 271-277, 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.
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:
- 2 TO 28, HENRIETTA STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, SWINDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 271-277, 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 94797 22778
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422NE HENRIETTA STREET 630-1/9/378 (West side) 14/12/83 Nos.2-28 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: HENRIETTA STREET Nos 2-4, 12, 15-17, 22-25, 26-29 (consec)) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Nos.271-277 (Odd))
II
Includes: No.2 SWINDON ROAD. Includes: Nos.271-277 HIGH STREET. Terrace of 32 houses, now shops and houses. c1810-20 with later additions and alterations including late-C19 and C20 shop fronts. Stucco over brick, with slate roofs, brick and stucco party-wall stacks and wrought-iron balconies. EXTERIOR: mainly 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows each, that to left has 3 first-floor windows; to south return (High Street) 3 storeys with attics to mansard roof at left, 2:2:1 first-floor windows. Service ranges and workshops to rear. 6/6 and 8/8 sashes throughout where original, some blind windows, all in plain reveals and with sills. To south return the second floor has 3/6 and 6/6 sashes. Entrances at left, 6-panel doors where original, with fanlights (some with decorative glazing bars). Left angle is curved on plan, then stepped back twice. C19 shop fronts include those to Nos 16, 18 and 19 with each 2-light windows with turned mullion and entablature, those 2 to left has brackets to cornices. Low parapet with copings. INTERIOR: retain original joinery and plasterwork including some dogleg staircases with stick balusters and wreathed handrails. 1983 List notes wall-paintings to No.12 ground-floor, front room representing landscapes of a very high quality, c1835, one of them over fireplace, of a monastic ruin which may represent Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds (currently covered in). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor balconies to Nos 4 and 12 have individual balconies with rods embellished with lead stars. A good surviving example of artisan housing in the centre of Cheltenham. Nos.2-4, 15-17, 22-25 & 26-29 (consec) Henrietta Street listed
12.03.87. Nos.271-277 (odd) High Street listed 12.03.87. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).
Listing NGR: SO9479322774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474708
- 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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