Benton (Cheltenham and Gloucester College)
BENTON (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE), 21, THE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388012
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Benton (Cheltenham and Gloucester College)
- Statutory Address:
- BENTON (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE), 21, THE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388012
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Benton (Cheltenham and Gloucester College)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENTON (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE), 21, THE PARK
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:
- BENTON (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE), 21, THE PARK
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 94186 20872
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9420NW THE PARK 630-1/26/900 (East side) 12/03/55 No.21 Benton (Cheltenham and Gloucester College) (Formerly Listed as: THE PARK No.21 Benton Lodge)
GV II
Villa, now college. 1851. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof with off-centre ridge stack and iron verandah and balconies. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 3 first-floor windows; extension to rear. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles at ground floor, first-floor band, pilasters to ends at first floor; windows have tooled architraves. Flight of roll-edged steps to central entrance a 4-panel, part-glazed door within porch with 2 pairs of fluted Doric pilasters, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice with guttae and blocking course; sides of porch have glazing with margin-lights containing coloured glass. Ground floor has tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes. First floor has 1/1 sashes; some blind boxes remain to first floor. Basement has 3/3 sashes where original. Right return has 3 first-floor windows. First floor has 1/1 sashes; ground floor has tall 2/2 sashes; attic roof dormer has casement window. Left return has rectangular bay to ground floor with tripartite window with 2/2 sashes and pilasters between. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front facade has ground-floor balconies with elaborate scroll-and-lozenge motif, also tent hoods on ornate brackets. Right return has continuous verandah with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade and openwork frieze, scroll motif to uprights. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Park had been laid out by 1833 by its owner Thomas Billings as an oval tree-lined drive with a central park which for a short period in the mid-C19 became a zoological garden. In 1839 the development was bought by Samuel Daukes who continued the building. This is one of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for Regent's Park, London (1809-11). Originally known as The Elms, during the C19 this was the home of Bishop T Dunn. Bought by St Mary's College in 1944.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271; Sampson A: The Historic Buildings of Cheltenham and Gloucester College).
Listing NGR: SO9419820869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476009
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, Life in the English Country House, (1978), 270-271
Sampson, A, Historic Buildings of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, ()
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 36, 92
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.
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