Numbers 38 and 40 With Attached Walls and Piers and Area Railings
NUMBERS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND AREA RAILINGS, 38 AND 40, PRESTBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387593
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 40 With Attached Walls and Piers and Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND AREA RAILINGS, 38 AND 40, PRESTBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387593
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 40 With Attached Walls and Piers and Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND AREA RAILINGS, 38 AND 40, PRESTBURY ROAD
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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:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 40 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND AREA RAILINGS, 38 AND 40, 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 95562 23008
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9523SE PRESTBURY ROAD 630-1/7/702 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.38 AND 40 with attached walls and piers and area railings (Formerly Listed as: PRESTBURY ROAD (North side) Nos.34-60 (Even))
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas with attached walls and piers and area railings. 1839-40. By Abraham Tyler, builder, who completed many of the houses in Pittville. Stucco over brick with hipped roof, slate at right, mock slate at left and tall stucco party-wall stack; iron verandahs and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band surmounted by 3 Doric pilasters between centre windows. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. End entrances: flights of roll-edged steps to 4-panel doors, the upper panels raised and fielded, lower panels flush, with side-lights and divided overlights. Wide eaves. INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: verandahs have x-and-circle motif to uprights and openwork frieze, area railings have X-motif balustrade. Coped walls with plank doors approx 2m high to either side ramped downwards to piers, that to right shared with No.42 (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: 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. The villas on the NW side of Prestbury Road are shown as laid out on Merrett's Map of 1834. Nos 34-60, Prestbury Road (qqv) form a group of semi-detached villas. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 74-75).
Listing NGR: SO9555723008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475568
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 74-75
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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