Glensanda
GLENSANDA, 1, MONTPELLIER PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387116
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Glensanda
- Statutory Address:
- GLENSANDA, 1, MONTPELLIER PARADE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387116
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Glensanda
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLENSANDA, 1, MONTPELLIER PARADE
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:
- GLENSANDA, 1, MONTPELLIER PARADE
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 94722 21798
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421NE MONTPELLIER PARADE 630-1/18/533 (West side) 12/03/55 No.1 Glensanda
GV II
House, now offices. c1823 with later alterations. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, end stucco stacks; iron window guards. Central hallway, double depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows. Facade articulated by full-height Doric pilasters to ends and between windows with deep elliptically-arched frieze forming recesses above windows; continuous first- and second-floor bands. First floor has 6/6 sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; ground floor has rectangular bay at right and 1/1 sashes. Basement has 6/6 sashes where original. Central entrance with Doric porch with frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. Within a 4-panel door and fanlight with decorative batwing and circle type glazing bars. Crowning frieze and cornice. Similar stucco decoration to right return has two 6-pane French windows and divided overlight with margin-lights; to second floor are similar casements with glazing bars and margin-lights. To rear facade a full-height bow with tripartite 1/1 sashes and 3/3 sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: right facade has 2 first-floor window-guards with concentric circles. Occupies a corner site with Montpellier Drive and Montpellier Spa Road. One of a good group of 1820s villas in Montpellier Parade, the popular neo-Classical device of using full-height arched bays is used here to good effect. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 143).
Listing NGR: SO9468121731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 143
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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