Cleeve House and Homewood With Attached Railings
CLEEVE HOUSE AND HOMEWOOD WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388216
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Cleeve House and Homewood With Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CLEEVE HOUSE AND HOMEWOOD WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388216
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Cleeve House and Homewood With Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEEVE HOUSE AND HOMEWOOD WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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:
- CLEEVE HOUSE AND HOMEWOOD WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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 95386 23732
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1004 (North side) 05/05/72 Cleeve House and Homewood, with attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)
GV II
Villa, now divided into 2 dwellings, and attached railings. c1851-2. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, end stuccoed stacks with cornices to ends of main range, and iron balcony and railings. PLAN: main range has central hallway and range to right is set back. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3+1 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes quoins to main range, tooled architraves to windows, those to first floor are eared, hipped and with feet, those to ground floor have frieze and cornice on corbel brackets; continuous first-floor moulded sill band, moulded band above first-floor, dentil cornice to main range. First floor has 1/1 horned sashes; ground floor has 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, that to left is a tripartite window; blind boxes to ground floor. Basement has 4/4 and 3/3 between 1/1 sashes. Attic has skylights. Central entrance to main range and left entrance to right range, flights of roll-edged steps to round-arched openings with moulded heads on imposts, within are 4-panel doors with fanlights. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have embellished rods, ground-floor balustrade on plinths have alternate embellished ovals and rods. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Pittville development, completed after Joseph Pitt's death in 1842. Originally planned as Beaufort Place and laid out as West Spa Approach, c1844, it was not part of John Forbes's original plan for the estate. The houses along this drive were originally known as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group of similarly designed villas on West Approach Drive with Mount Sorrell (qv), Beaufort (qv) and Park Gate (qv). (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).
Listing NGR: SO9538223734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 75-76
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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