Charlton Manor

CHARLTON MANOR, ASHLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386539
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Charlton Manor
Statutory Address:
CHARLTON MANOR, ASHLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386539
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Charlton Manor
Statutory Address 1:
CHARLTON MANOR, ASHLEY 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHARLTON MANOR, ASHLEY ROAD

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:
Charlton Kings
National Grid Reference:
SO 96671 21629

Details

CHARLTON KINGS

SO92SE ASHLEY ROAD 630-1/2/2 (West side) 14/12/83 Charlton Manor

II

House. 1864, with later addition to left return. Possibly by Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer, for Charles Andrews (speculator). Stone rubble laid 'crazily' with ashlar dressings, ornately tiled roof and ashlar stacks with cornices; range to left has mock timber-framing and render. 'Horrid' Gothic in 2 parts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with stepped and barge-boarded gables over. Chamfered plinth. First floor: oriel window to centre between mullioned and transomed windows with relieving arches. Ground floor: central entrance in porch with double pointed, part-glazed doors between sidelights, cusped windows to sides of porch and pointed plank door within in chamfered surround. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows to either side of porch, those to right with cusped upper lights under relieving arches. 2 gable return. Left return has jettied extension, mullion and transom windows. Angled bay at angle with original part. Projecting octagonal bay to left linking with former billiard room. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Battledown Estate was laid out in 1858 by Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer. Charlton Manor, originally known as Simla Lodge, was the first house to be built and occupied on the Estate. (O'Connor DA: Battledown The Story of a Victorian Estate.: Stroud: 1992-: 74-5, 86).



Listing NGR: SO9667121629

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Sources

Books and journals
O Connor, D A, Battledown The Story of a Victorian Estate, (1992), 74-75, 86

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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