Thirlestaine Cottages
THIRLESTAINE COTTAGES, 1 TO 7, THIRLESTAINE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388138
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Thirlestaine Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THIRLESTAINE COTTAGES, 1 TO 7, THIRLESTAINE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388138
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Thirlestaine Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THIRLESTAINE COTTAGES, 1 TO 7, THIRLESTAINE ROAD
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:
- THIRLESTAINE COTTAGES, 1 TO 7, THIRLESTAINE ROAD
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 94829 21335
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SE THIRLESTAINE ROAD 630-1/23/1041 (South side) 12/03/55 Thirlestaine Cottages, Nos.1-7 (consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (East side) No.138 Thirlestaine House. Stable block at Thirlestaine House (now cottages Nos.1-7))
GV II
Stable range, now hall of residence for Cheltenham College (qv). c1823 with mid-late C20 conversion. Stucco over ashlar and brick, ashlar parapet and columns; with slate roof. U-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows to main range with 2-storey projecting wings, that to left with 1 first-floor window. Entrance facade has central ground-floor loggia with 6 slender iron Doric columns. Single-storey projecting range to end of right wing. Stucco detailing includes full-height pilasters with sunk panels to ends of wings the capitals of which form part of continuous crowning entablature, low parapet; set back behind parapet to main range a further ashlar parapet with central breakforward and continuous entablature, raised upshot to centre. Entrance at left of main range a 6-panel door; further similar entrance to right wing. Ground floor has 6/6 sashes. First floor has 3/6 sashes. Single-storey range to right has central opening with 2 Doric columns. Rear has 2:5:2 first-floor windows and slight breakforwards to ends with similar pilasters and entablature. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the stable range to Thirlestaine House, No.138 Bath Road (qv), now part of Cheltenham College. The 1983 List noted that the stable block had 'an excellent cupola (a picture of which is in Richardson and Eberlain's "Smaller English Country House of the Later Renaissance", though it is erroneously called Pittville Spa), with small Ionic columns.
Listing NGR: SO9481321330
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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