Burston House and Kingsmuir Hotel
BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1387442
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Statutory Address:
- BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1387442
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS
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 95610 22880
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9522NE PITTVILLE CIRCUS 630-1/11/645 (North side) 14/12/83 Burston House and Kingsmuir Hotel (Formerly Listed as: PITTVILLE CIRCUS (North side) Burston House and Kingsmuir)
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas, now house and hotel. c1840-60. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, central and left stucco stacks; ashlar dressings to porch. Double-depth plan with side stairhalls. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement and with attics, 4 first-floor windows with 3-storey narrow entrance bays set back to sides. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles; tooled architraves to windows, those to ground floor have open segmental pediments extended with cornice on corbel brackets; moulded first-floor sill band, projecting beneath windows and with feet, moulded second-floor sill band with decorative apron beneath windows. Ground floor has tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes, the centre sashes round-arched. First floor has tripartite window with 4/4 cambered-headed sash between 2/2 sashes and two 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes with cambered heads. Second floor has tripartite window with 4/4 cambered-headed sash between 2/2 sashes and two 4/4 cambered-headed sashes; outer 2nd-floor windows have eared surrounds. End entrances: flights of steps to 4-fielded-panel doors with overlights within round-arched recesses with vermiculated jambs and alternate vermiculated and plain voussoirs to head. Moulded eaves band surmounted by brackets to wide eaves. Attic roof lights at left. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Circus was laid out in 1839-40 by Cope on land purchased from Joseph Pitt. However the basic layout of the Pittville Estate was designed by John Forbes. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 47,96).
Listing NGR: SO9561522885
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 475403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 47,96
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