Nouvelle and The Old Cottage (formerly Nouvelle)
Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, GL50 2JX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333174
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Nouvelle and The Old Cottage (formerly Nouvelle)
- Statutory Address:
- Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, GL50 2JX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333174
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Nouvelle and The Old Cottage (formerly Nouvelle)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, GL50 2JX
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:
- Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, GL50 2JX
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 94216 21904
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/04/2018
SO9421NW
630-1/17/436
CHELTENHAM
LANSDOWN CRESCENT (North side)
Nouvelle and The Old Cottage
(Formerly listed as Nouvelle)
12/03/55
GV
II
Villa, now flats, and house. c1831-48. By R.W and C Jearrad. Ashlar, painted, over brick with hipped slate roof and iron balcony. Central hallway, double depth plan service range set back at left.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys on basement, five first-floor windows, the centre bay recessed. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band, first-floor moulded sill band; cornices on consoles over ground-floor windows, moulded architraves to ground- and first-floor windows. Ground floor has tall 1/1 sashes; first-floor and basement has 3/6 sashes. Central entrance, flight of steps to panelled door in pilastered surround with frieze and cornice. Right return has 3:1 first-floor windows, with projecting, gabled range to right. Mainly 6/6 sashes in tooled architraves, those to breakforward have cornices on consoles; ground-floor window to breakforward is tripartite with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Service range set back at left has two-storey, single bay with 6/6 sash and blind opening, then two low-storey, two-window range with 2/6 sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor balcony to gabled range to right return has Carron Company double-heart and anthemion motif.
A similar design to Pembury House and Little Pembury (qv). Part of the former Lansdowne Estate, a notable example of suburban town planning.
Listing NGR: SO9421421896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 69
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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