LONGFORD HOUSE

LONGFORD HOUSE, 123, THE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388106
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: LONGFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LONGFORD HOUSE, 123, THE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388106
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: LONGFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LONGFORD HOUSE, 123, 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:: LONGFORD HOUSE, 123, 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 94093 21160

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW THE PARK 630-1/22/924 (North side) 12/03/55 No.123 Longford House

GV II

Villa, now 2 dwellings. c1833 with later additions and alterations including 2 extensions to rear, c1918. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roofs, tall end stucco stacks with cornices. Italianate style. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway and service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attic, 5 first-floor windows arranged 1:3:1, the central section is raised and has 2-storey bow. Stucco detailing includes end pilasters through ground and first floors, frieze and cornice; windows have tooled architraves, frieze and cornices, those to ground floor on console brackets, those to first floor have pierced balconies; bow has pilasters between openings to ground floor and continuous pierced balustrade to first floor. Central entrance: 3 roll-edged steps, curved on plan to double doors within paired pilasters and cornices; otherwise bow to ground floor has 4/4 sashes with margin-lights. Ground floor has outer tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. First floor has outer 6/6 sashes; bow has 3 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, and canopy. Attics have narrow casements to outer bays and 3/6 sash to centre. Basement has 4/4 sashes. Rear has bow to ground floor with tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sash curved on section, otherwise 6/6 sashes and 2 tripartite windows with 1/1 sashes. INTERIOR: retains many original features; iron open-well staircase has alternate stick and embellished balusters and with wreathed handrail to each floor. Arch leading into hall has sunk panels; mainly panelled doors. Room to rear has embellished cornice with grape ceiling frieze; room to right has egg-and-dart cornice and deep ceiling frieze with scroll motif. First floor retains 2 fireplaces with circle motif. Front of bow to first floor is a conservatory with blind box. 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. One of the principal developments influenced by White's and Nash's schemes for Regent's Park (1809-11), London.

Said to be one of the earliest villas to be built in The Park. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 33,92).

Listing NGR: SO9409321160

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Legacy System number:: 476104
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 33, 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.