Priors Lodge

Priors Lodge , Pittville Circus, Cheltenham , GL52 2PX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387446
Date first listed:: 05-May-1972
List Entry Name:: Priors Lodge
Statutory Address:: Priors Lodge , Pittville Circus, Cheltenham , GL52 2PX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387446
Date first listed:: 05-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: Priors Lodge
Statutory Address 1:: Priors Lodge , Pittville Circus, Cheltenham , GL52 2PX

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:: Priors Lodge , Pittville Circus, Cheltenham , GL52 2PX

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 95558 22804

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

SO9522NE 630-1/11/649

CHELTENHAM PITTVILLE CIRCUS (South side) Priors Lodge

(Formerly listed as Priorslee, previously isted as: PITTVILLE CIRCUS (South side) Ash Priors)

05/05/72

GV II

Villa, now nursing home. c1840-50. Builder probably Edward Cope. Stucco over brick with renewed tile roof, ridge and right end stacks. Tudor Gothic style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with attics to gables and basement, three first-floor windows; end bays break forwards and are gabled; further ranges set back to returns, that to left is full-height and gabled. Stucco detailing includes hoodmoulds with label stops to most openings. Central entrance a four-panel door with sidelights and overlight within pointed-arched recess. Ground floor has four-light wooden mullion windows with two levels of transoms. First floor has similar three-light window to left, two-light window to centre and rectangular bay to right, 2/1 sashes. Attics to gables have pairs of 4/2 sashes, with skylight to centre. Concealed basement.

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: SO9555822804

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Legacy System number:: 475407
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.