Bryansford House With Attached Wall at Right Railings Gate Piers and Gates
BRYANSFORD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALL AT RIGHT RAILINGS GATE PIERS AND GATES, 16, PARK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387425
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bryansford House With Attached Wall at Right Railings Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- BRYANSFORD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALL AT RIGHT RAILINGS GATE PIERS AND GATES, 16, PARK PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387425
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bryansford House With Attached Wall at Right Railings Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRYANSFORD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALL AT RIGHT RAILINGS GATE PIERS AND GATES, 16, PARK PLACE
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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:
- BRYANSFORD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALL AT RIGHT RAILINGS GATE PIERS AND GATES, 16, PARK PLACE
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 94350 21412
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SW PARK PLACE 630-1/22/628 (East side) 12/03/55 No.16 Bryansford House with attached wall at right, railings, gate piers and gates
GV II
Villa with attached wall, railings, gate piers and gates. c1830-32. After JB Papworth. Ashlar over brick with hipped double-pitch slate roof and left end stucco stack; brick wall, iron bootscrapers and railings and gates with stuccoed end piers to carriage sweep. PLAN: double depth with central entrance and service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics to rear, 3 first-floor windows. Ashlar detailing includes ground-floor horizontal rustication drawn into voussoirs over windows, end Tuscan pilasters through ground and first floors and to first floor between windows; tooled architraves to first-floor windows. Ground floor has tripartite windows, 1/1 replacement sashes throughout. Flight of 8 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 6-fielded-panel door with overlight with margin-glazing within Doric porch with columns in antis and 3/4 engaged columns to ends, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice with blocking course. Wide eaves. Rear retains 8/8 and 6/6 sashes. Attic dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2 bootscrapers to steps. Walls to either side approx 2m high, with copings, then to right are boundary walls at rear abutting arrowhead railings to front right boundary with embellished finials to stanchions extending for approx. 8m to renewed pier with sunk panels then double gates, ramped down to centre with arrowhead bars and scrolled lower frieze, iron hinge post has scrolls and peaked caps. Similar railings for 4m the further similar iron hinge post, with double gates with end ashlar pier. HISTORICAL NOTE: Park Place was developed by 1832. Verey states that 'this street .. consists mostly of detached or semi-detached villas, nearly all with neo-Greek detail, and some very much in the style of JB Papworth, who designed a house for a Captain Capel in Cheltenham.' He sites Nos 16 and 18 (qv) Park Place as most resembling this design. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 34; The Buildings of England: Verey D:
Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 153).
Listing NGR: SO9435021409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 153
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 34
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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