Numbers 50 and 52 With Attached Walls and Piers and With Attached Railings to Number 50
NUMBERS 50 AND 52 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 50, 50 AND 52, PRESTBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 50 and 52 With Attached Walls and Piers and With Attached Railings to Number 50
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 50 AND 52 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 50, 50 AND 52, PRESTBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 50 and 52 With Attached Walls and Piers and With Attached Railings to Number 50
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 50 AND 52 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 50, 50 AND 52, 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 50 AND 52 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 50, 50 AND 52, 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 95613 23044
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9523SE PRESTBURY ROAD 630-1/7/707 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.50 AND 52 with attached walls and piers, and with attached railings to No.50 (Formerly Listed as: PRESTBURY ROAD (North side) Nos.34-60 (Even))
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas with attached walls, piers and railings. 1838-9. By Abraham Tyler, builder, who completed many houses in Pittville. Stucco over brick with hipped mock slate roof, brick and stucco party-wall stacks; iron verandah and area railings. PLAN: outer side hallways with service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 6 first-floor windows, and with single first-floor bay at left. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band surmounted by 3 Doric pilasters between centre windows. 6/6 sashes throughout in plain reveals and with sills. Venetian shutters and S-latches to No.50. End entrances: flight of roll-edged steps to 5-panel doors, the upper panels raised and fielded, the lower panels flush, with sidelights and divided overlights. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: verandah has x-and circle motif to uprights with continuous openwork frieze. Area railings have X-motif. Window boxes to ground floor at right have X-motif. Walls approx 2m high, ramped down to piers, shared with Nos 48 (qv) and 54 (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 are shown as laid out but not built on Merrett's 1834 Map. Nos 34-60 Prestbury Road (qqv) form a group of semi-detached villas. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 23).
Listing NGR: SO9560923042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 23
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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