18, PARK PLACE
18, PARK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387429
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 18, PARK PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 18, PARK PLACE
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- Date:
- 2005-02-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/13865/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387429
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 18, PARK PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, PARK PLACE
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:
- 18, 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 94335 21381
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SW PARK PLACE 630-1/22/631 (East side) 12/03/55 No.18
GV II
Villa. c1830-32. After JB Papworth. Ashlar over brick with double pile, hipped slate roof. Double depth plan with central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, attic storey to rear, 3 first-floor windows. Ashlar detailing includes ground-floor rustication and voussoirs over ground-floor windows, tooled first-floor band; first-floor windows have tooled architraves; end pilasters with incised tooling. First floor has 6/6 sashes; ground floor has tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; basement has 8/8 sashes, all in tooled surrounds and with sills, those to ground floor have tooling to sills. Flight of 6 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 3-fielded-panel door (the lower panel with fluted surround) with sidelights and cambered overlight with decorative circle-motif to glazing bars, within Ionic porch with 2 pairs of columns, architrave, frieze and pediment. Wide eaves. Left return has 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing to head. Attic has 4/8 sashes. Rear retains some 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original features including open-well staircase with alternate stick and embellished balusters; otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Park Place was developed by 1832. Verey notes 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 Papworth, who designed a house for Captain Capel in Cheltenham.' He sites Nos 16 (qv) and 18 as most resembling this design. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 153).
Listing NGR: SO9433821379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 153
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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