Mount Sorrell and Attached Railings
MOUNT SORRELL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388217
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Sorrell and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT SORRELL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388217
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Sorrell and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT SORRELL AND 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:
- MOUNT SORRELL AND 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 95343 23724
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1005 (North side) 05/05/72 Mount Sorrell and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)
GV II
Villa and attached railings. 1851-4. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and end and rear stucco stacks and iron balcony. Double-depth plan with service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attic, 3 first-floor windows and with single-storey porch set back to right; 2-storey, single-bay range to rear. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles, tooled architraves to windows, those to first floor have ears, shoulders and feet, those to ground floor have cornices on console brackets; first-floor moulded sill band, moulded band over first floor, crowning dentil cornice and with similar cornice to porch. First floor has 1/1 sashes; ground floor has 9- and 6-pane C20 windows and retains blind boxes. Concealed basement. Attic dormer to centre has casement windows. Entrance to right: flight of roll-edged steps to round-arched opening with tooled head on imposts, within are 4-panel double doors with fanlight with radial glazing. Right return of porch has 3-bay blind arcade with tooled arch on imposts. Rear retains 6/6 sashes and 12/12 staircase sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balcony to ground floor on plinths have embellished rods. Railings to side of steps have low balustrade and end pier with cornice and carved basket of flowers. 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 the drive were known originally as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group of similarly designed villas along West Approach Drive with Beaufort (qv), Cleeve House and Homewood (qv) and Park Gate (qv). (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).
Listing NGR: SO9534223729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476215
- 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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