Bafford House

BAFFORD HOUSE, NEWCOURT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386651
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Bafford House
Statutory Address:
BAFFORD HOUSE, NEWCOURT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386651
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Bafford House
Statutory Address 1:
BAFFORD HOUSE, NEWCOURT 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAFFORD HOUSE, NEWCOURT 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 96215 20229

Details

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9620SW NEWCOURT ROAD 630-1/36/103 (South West side) 14/12/83 Bafford House

GV II

Villa, now residential home for the elderly. 1826 with later additions and alterations. Bath stone ashlar front on sandstone basement, concealed slate roof, end stacks with cornices. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement at right, with 3 bays, the outer bays break forward, with 5 first-floor windows arranged 1:3:1. Plinth. Full-height Ionic pilasters to outer bays, Tuscan to centre bay. Flight of renewed steps with original surrounds to central entrance porch with 2 pairs of Ionic columns, frieze, cornice and blocking course. Within a 6-fielded-panel door with overlight. Mainly 6/6 sashes, those to ground floor are taller, all in tooled architraves, those to ground floor have cornices, that to first-floor, centre an 8/8 sash has cornice on consoles. Pilasters to first bay of right return, blind openings. INTERIOR: lobby has 2 niches, double panelled doors with overlight with glazing bars, in panelled reveals. Main hall: fluted Tuscan pilasters with embellished cornices. Sweeping staircase has cast- and wrought-iron balusters; round-arched staircase window and 2 niches. 6-panel doors have fielded-panel reveals, tooled architraves and cornices. Lounge: (now divided) cornice and ceiling frieze with honeysuckle and scroll motifs; moulded pelmets. Shutters. Some false ceilings reputed to cover original cornices. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 121; Paget M (ed), Charlton Kings Local History Society: A History of Charlton Kings: Gloucester: 1988-: 73).

Listing NGR: SO9621520229

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Legacy System number:
474047
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 121
Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin in Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin, (1988), 73

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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