Park Gate
PARK GATE, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388219
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Park Gate
- Statutory Address:
- PARK GATE, WEST APPROACH DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388219
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Park Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK GATE, 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:
- PARK GATE, 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 95406 23735
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SE WEST APPROACH DRIVE 630-1/2/1006 (North side) 05/05/72 Park Gate (Formerly Listed as: WEST APPROACH DRIVE Mount Sorrell, Beaufort, Cleeve House, Homewood and Lorraine House)
GV II
Formerly known as: Lorraine House WEST APPROACH DRIVE. Villa. c1851-2. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and end stuccoed stacks with cornices, iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics, 3 first-floor windows, and with single-storey porch to right. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles, windows have tooled architraves, those to first floor have ears, shoulders and feet; floating cornices to ground floor, moulded first-floor sill band raised beneath windows, moulded band above first floor, dentil cornice; moulded dentil cornice to porch. Ground floor has 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, that to left is tripartite; first floor has 1/1 lugged sashes. Basement has C20 fixed-light casements. Entrance to right in set-back porch, flight of roll-edged steps to round-arched opening with tooled head on imposts, within a 4-panel door. Right return has 6/6 sash in tooled, eared architrave; return to porch has blind 3-window arcade with imposts and tooled round-arched heads. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: balcony to ground floor on plinths has embellished 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 known originally as Nos 1-4 Beaufort Villas. Forms a group with Mount Sorrell (qv), Beaufort (qv), Cleeve House and Homewood (qv), West Approach Drive. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 75-76).
Listing NGR: SO9537723713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476217
- 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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