Court House (28) And Attached Railings
COURT HOUSE (28) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26 AND 28, PRIORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387617
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Court House (28) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE (28) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26 AND 28, PRIORY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387617
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Court House (28) And Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE (28) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26 AND 28, PRIORY STREET
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:
- COURT HOUSE (28) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26 AND 28, PRIORY STREET
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 95516 22098
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9522SE PRIORY STREET 630-1/15/725 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.26 AND 28 Court House (28), and attached railings
GV II
Pair of terraced houses, now flats and attached railings. c1820-50 with later additions and alterations including c1970s porch to left. Stucco over brick with concealed, double-pile roof, wrought-iron railings and balconies. Double-depth plan with service ranges to rear; house to left breaks forward. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 6 first-floor windows, with single-storey porch at left. Stucco detailing includes ground-floor band surmounted by 4 Doric pilasters through ground and first floors to end and between windows at left, and 2 fluted Ionic pilasters to right end and to left of end window, entablature surmounted by pilasters as before, with continuous frieze and cornice incorporated, and blocking course; ground- and first-floor windows have tooled architraves, those to ground floor with frieze and cornice to left and floating cornices at right. 6/6 sashes where original, all in plain reveals and with sills; blind boxes remain to ground-floor windows throughout and to first-floor windows at right. Basement has 6/6 cambered-headed sashes in double-chamfered reveals and with sills, and doors. Entrances: to left a flight of 6 roll-edged steps to c1980s door in lean-to porch; otherwise entrance at left, flight of steps to 4-panel door with sidelights and overlight with glazing bars within tooled timber architraves with fleurons in corners. INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including panelled shutters to some rooms, and plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps and area railings have scrolled lozenge motif. Window guards to first floor at right have elongated scroll motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.26 was the early boyhood home of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70), Poet of Australia; also, from 1857-60 the home of George and Josephine Butler, Mrs Butler was an ardent campaigner for social justice. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 17,51).
Listing NGR: SO9550422100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 17, 51
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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