LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND)

LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND), QUEENS PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387754
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND)
Statutory Address:: LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND), QUEENS PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387754
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND)
Statutory Address 1:: LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND), QUEENS PARADE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LAURISTON HOUSE (BANK OF SCOTLAND), QUEENS PARADE

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 94319 21823

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW QUEEN'S PARADE 630-1/17/768 Lauriston House (Bank of Scotland) 12/03/55

GV II

Villa, now bank. 1839-40; with later additions and alterations including c1960 range at rear. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, stucco ridge and rear stacks with cornices and iron windows guards. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement to right return, 3 first-floor windows. End breakforwards are articulated by full-height Tower of Winds pilasters, continuous crowning dentil entablature with blocking course and copings. Plinth. Flight of 6 steps to central entrance, double 4-panel and studded doors with sidelights and pilasters between, overlight with decorative glazing bars, within porch with 4 fluted columns Tower of Winds capitals and engaged pilasters supporting heavy dentil cornice. Outer windows are tripartite with 6/6 sashes between 2/2 lugged sashes, with narrow pilasters between, those to ground floor have framing pilasters, those to first floor have balustrade with bulbous balusters. Otherwise 6/6 sashes, taller to ground floor. Tooled architrave to central, first-floor window. Basement has 8/8 sashes where original. 3-window return to left and 4-window return to right, both articulated by similar pilasters, ground-floor windows have tooled architrave, frieze and cornice. INTERIOR: to left, ground floor, deep cornice with tall acanthus motif, 2 marble fireplaces; hall has cornice with modillions and paterae; room to right has deep roll-moulded cornice; arches to stairway. First floor has some marble fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ground-floor windows have individual balconies with circle motif embellished with heart and acanthus. First-floor windows to right return have window boxes with scrolled lozenge. HISTORICAL NOTE: Apparently shown as laid out but not built on Merrett's Map of 1834. Dr Thomas Richardson Colledge (1796-1879) founder of the Medical Missionary Society lived in this house. A very fine villa design, articulated with considerable depth and ingenuity: the resulting 3-dimensional quality is comparable to some of the 1830s villas by Dyer in the Clifton area of Bristol. (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9432721804

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Merrett, H S , Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.