IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE

IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, 27, THE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388017
Date first listed:: 04-May-1972
List Entry Name:: IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address:: IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, 27, THE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388017
Date first listed:: 04-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address 1:: IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, 27, THE PARK

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:: IRETON HOUSE (CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, 27, 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 94152 20820

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9420NW THE PARK 630-1/26/905 (East side) 05/05/72 No.27 Ireton House (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE) and attached balustrade (Formerly Listed as: THE PARK No.27 Ireton House, St Mary's College)

GV II

Villa, now college and attached balustrade. 1843. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stucco ridge and lateral stacks; iron balustrade. L-shaped on plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attic to left return, 5 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes first-floor sill band, all windows have tooled architraves, those to ground floor with cornices on console brackets. Flight of 7 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 4-panel door with sidelights and overlight within porch with 2 pairs of fluted Doric pilasters, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice with guttae and blocking course. 1/1 sashes throughout, taller to ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills; blind boxes and Venetian blinds remain to first floor. Basement windows concealed. Left return retains several 6/6 sashes, including to basement; attic dormer has casement window. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balustrade to right has scrolled lozenge motif. 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 W Daukes who continued the building. This is one of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's designs for Regent's Park (1809-11) in London. Originally known as Malvern House, this villa was occupied in the C19 by Honl Percy Moreton and Col Archibald Impsey Lovibond. It was acquired by St Mary's College in 1945. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 36,92; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Sampson A: The Historic Buildings of Cheltenham and Gloucester College: 1991-; Girouard M: The English Town: 1990-: 270-271).

Listing NGR: SO9415320817

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Legacy System number:: 476014
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M , The English Town, (1990), 270-271
Merrett, H S , Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Sampson, A, Historic Buildings of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 36, 92

Legal

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