Edenham and Westbury and Attached Area Railings
EDENHAM AND WESTBURY AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388200
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Edenham and Westbury and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- EDENHAM AND WESTBURY AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388200
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Edenham and Westbury and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDENHAM AND WESTBURY AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, WELLINGTON STREET
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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:
- EDENHAM AND WESTBURY AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, WELLINGTON STREET
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 95219 23139
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9523SW WELLINGTON SQUARE 630-1/6/993 (East side) 12/03/55 Edenham and Westbury and attached area railings
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas with attached railings. c1838. Builder probably Edward Billings. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, stuccoed party-wall and end stacks; iron balconies and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 6 first-floor windows (3:3). End bays break forwards. Stucco detailing includes 3/4 engaged fluted Ionic columns through ground and first floors to ends of breakforwards, continuous dentil entablature over first floor. Ground and first floor windows have tooled architraves, except ground-floor outer windows which are in round-arched reveals. 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to first floor. 8/8 sashes to basement. Paired central entrances in projecting porch with round-arched openings on paired Doric pillars, cornice and surmounting balustrade with latticework to balcony. Within porch are part-glazed doors with sidelights and overlights. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: blind boxes to first-floor windows. Individual balconies with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif to first-floor windows. Area railings and urn finials to stanchions. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42, the general layout being designed by the architect John Forbes. A robustly articulated neo-Classical design, one of the best examples in Cheltenham of its type. All listed buildings in Wellington Square form a good group around a central grassed area. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 65).
Listing NGR: SO9522823137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 65
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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