Southend House
SOUTHEND HOUSE, 32, PRESTBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387587
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Southend House
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHEND HOUSE, 32, PRESTBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387587
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Southend House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHEND HOUSE, 32, PRESTBURY 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:
- SOUTHEND HOUSE, 32, PRESTBURY 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 95519 22976
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9522NE PRESTBURY ROAD 630-1/11/697 (North side) 05/05/72 No.32 Southend House
GV II
Villa, now flats. c1840-5. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, stucco ridge and rear stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 3 + 3 first-floor windows, those to left in full-height canted bay which continues around angle as 5-sided bay. Stucco detailing includes pediments on console brackets to ground-floor windows, and a bowed porch with 2 'Tower of Winds' columns with Doric pilaster responds and dentil entablature; tooled first-floor band; tooled architraves to windows with sills on feet to first floor which interrupt band. Overhanging eaves. 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. Basement has replacement 1/1 sashes. Off-centre entrance, flight of steps to double 4-fielded panel doors, bowed on section and with fixed lights in sides of porch. Rear elevation to Albert Road has a single-storey bow to ground floor, surmounted by openwork balustrade, with tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; otherwise 6/6 sashes throughout, those to canted bay at angle have pediments on console brackets. Right return has 4/4 staircase sash with radial glazing to head and margin-lights. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters to windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: Abraham Tyler, builder agreed to purchase the lot (1840), but later transferred it to Charles Cary without the house having begun; it was then mortgaged to Revd Oliver Cary of Charlton Kings (1840). Built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1835-42, the general layout being designed by the architect John Forbes. It was lived in by John Gregory Welch (in 1846) who had built Arle House (demolished c1960). Nos 32 to 66 (even) (qqv) form a group. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 74; Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: White P: Arle House, home of the Welch family: 1986-: 20).
Listing NGR: SO9551422972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475562
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988)
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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