Brandon House
BRANDON HOUSE, 62, PAINSWICK ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387401
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Brandon House
- Statutory Address:
- BRANDON HOUSE, 62, PAINSWICK ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-11-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/11649/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Kenneth M Walker. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387401
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Brandon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANDON HOUSE, 62, PAINSWICK 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:
- BRANDON HOUSE, 62, PAINSWICK ROAD
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 94388 21087
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SW PAINSWICK ROAD 630-1/22/612 (East side) 12/03/55 No.62 Brandon House
GV II*
Villa, now offices. c1834-9. Built for Henry Norwood Tyre, architect probably John Forbes. Ashlar over brick with slate roof, rear ashlar stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows and with 2-lower-storey L-plan service range to rear. End 1-window bays break forwards slightly. Ashlar detailing includes Corinthian pilasters to breakforwards, continuous architrave, frieze and dentil cornice with blocking course. Windows have tooled architraves, outer windows to ground floor have ornamental friezes and cornices. Central first-floor 3-light window with entablature and console brackets. Flight of 5 roll-edged steps to central tetrastyle porch with Tower of Winds capitals and frieze embellished by wreaths, cornice and blocking course. Plinth. 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to ground floor. Central entrance a panelled door with sidelights and pilasters between, continuous overlight. Right return a 5 first-floor window range has tooled architraves, and with cornices to alternate ground-floor windows; 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork and joinery including open-well staircase with iron lotus-flower motif to balusters and wreathed handrail, carved tread ends. Joinery includes panelled doors and dividing doors between front and rear right rooms; panelled shutters. Marble fireplaces include that to right, front room with floral motif to corners. HISTORICAL NOTE: Verey notes that Brandon House has the same capitals to the pilasters as Nos 121, 123, 125 and 127, Promenade (qqv), which were built by Forbes. Not shown on Merrett's Map of 1834, however Tyre is noted as resident of Brandon House (Brandon being one of the family names) in the 1839 street directory. During the C19 this was lived in by Countess Ponthieu (1845); Archbishop Whately of Dublin (1849); and Admiral McKeller. Painswick Road was laid out by Charles Baker, to connect Cheltenham with Painswick, following and Act of 1820. Little considers this to be 'the Cheltenham villa at its best'. Occupies a significant corner site and has good group value with No.60 Painswick Road (qv) and Church of St Philip and St James, Gratton Road (qv).
(Little B: Cheltenham in Pictures: Newton Abbot: 1967-: 46; Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal: Garrett JV: Charles Baker of Painswick and Cheltenham: 1989-; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 154; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).
Listing NGR: SO9439221088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Little, B, Cheltenham in Pictures, (1967), 46
Garrett, J V, Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal in Charles Baker Of Painswick And Cheltenham, (1989)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 23:55:53.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.