191, LONDON ROAD
191, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 191, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 191, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 191, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 191, LONDON 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:
- 191, LONDON 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 96204 21203
Details
CHARLTON KINGS
SO9621SW LONDON ROAD 630-1/29/77 (South West side) 14/12/83 No.191 (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South West side) Charlton Park Junior School)
II
House, later school, now restaurant. c1826. For Charles Cooke Higgs; later additions and alterations include C20 ballroom to rear; conversion to restaurant c1994. Stucco over brick with concealed hipped slate roof. PLAN: 2 storeys, 4-window main range with 2-lower-storey, 3-window service wing to left. EXTERIOR: main range: full-height Ionic pilasters to ends and to either side of entrance bay; frieze, architrave, dentil cornice and blocking course. Off-centre right entrance a Roman Doric distyle porch with frieze, architrave and pediment, double part-glazed and panelled doors in tooled surround. 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills throughout, those to ground floor have cornices on consoles. Service wing: 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills; frieze, cornice and blocking course. Right return has similar architraves to main range, blind window and glazed doors to ground floor and 6/6 sashes to first floor. INTERIOR: entrance hall has inner entrance with pilasters with anthemion capitals, embellished cornice and frieze with corbels and fleurons. Wide open-well staircase with ornate iron balusters. Embellished cornices to ground floor rooms, more simply moulded cornices to first floor. Shutters to most windows. 3 Regency marble fireplaces, 1 to ground floor, 2 to first floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Cooke Higgs was patron of the Church of the Holy Apostles (qv). (Paget M (ed), Charlton Kings Local History Society: A History of Charlton Kings: Gloucester: 1988-: 88).
Listing NGR: SO9638621118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474019
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Paget, M, A History of Charlton Kings, (1988), 88
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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