BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL

BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387442
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL
Statutory Address:: BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387442
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: BURSTON HOUSE AND KINGSMUIR HOTEL, PITTVILLE CIRCUS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 475403
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 47,96

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.