Joseph Pitt House
JOSEPH PITT HOUSE, PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387451
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Joseph Pitt House
- Statutory Address:
- JOSEPH PITT HOUSE, PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387451
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Joseph Pitt House
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOSEPH PITT HOUSE, PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD
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:
- JOSEPH PITT HOUSE, PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD
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 95966 22744
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9522NE PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD 630-1/11/654 (North side) 14/12/83 Joseph Pitt House
GV II
Formerly known as: East Hayes PITTVILLE CIRCUS ROAD. Vicarage, now offices. 1842. Presented to the Revd J Brown of Trinity Church by his parishioners. Cost »1,500. Stucco over brick with hipped artificial slate roof, yellow brick roof stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attics, 4 first-floor windows and single-storey entrance porch set back to left return. Stucco detailing includes plinth surmounted by Tuscan pilasters through ground and first floors to ends and between windows, crowning frieze and cornice; windows have tooled architraves, those to ground floor have pediments on consoles. Wide eaves on brackets. Main facade has horned 1/1 sashes, those to first floor with blind boxes. Attic roof dormers have 3/3 sashes and pediments on corbel brackets. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Entrance: flight of steps to solid porch with Tuscan pilasters, architrave, frieze and cornice with blocking course, 6-fielded-panel door with blind overlight. Left return: 3 first-floor windows. Blind openings and one 3/3 sash, all with similar tooled architraves to front. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork, including open-well staircase with wreathed handrail with rod and central bobbin balusters, panelled shutters to windows; cornices include egg-and-dart with acanthus modillions and fleurons to hall. Panelling to some ceilings. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 47,96).
Listing NGR: SO9596622744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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