Rose Gate

Glenfall House, Mill Lane, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL54 4EP

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Garden gate, known as Rose Gate, 1920s. Attributed to the Arts and Crafts architect and craftsman Norman Jewson. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1426706
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-2015
List Entry Name:: Rose Gate
Statutory Address:: Glenfall House, Mill Lane, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL54 4EP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1426706
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-2015
List Entry Name:: Rose Gate
Statutory Address 1:: Glenfall House, Mill Lane, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL54 4EP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Glenfall House, Mill Lane, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL54 4EP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Charlton Kings
National Grid Reference:: SO9794421724

Summary

Garden gate, known as Rose Gate, 1920s. Attributed to the Arts and Crafts architect and craftsman Norman Jewson.

Reasons for Designation

The Rose Gate at Glenfall House, an iron gate of the 1920s, attributed to the Arts and Crafts architect and craftsman Norman Jewson, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a good example of Norman Jewson’s characteristic metalwork, displaying a mannered naturalistic floral design with good quality workmanship; * Historic interest: as a key component of the formal terraced gardens created at Glenfall House by the Arts and Crafts architects, Norman Jewson and Sydney Barnsley, for its owner Arthur Mitchell in the 1920s; * Group value: together with the Tulip Gate it has considerable group value with Glenfall House (Grade II) and its registered park and garden (Grade II) to which it makes an important contribution.

History

In 1920 the Glenfall House estate, which was designed as a Picturesque landscape in the early C19, was purchased by the brewer Arthur Mitchell of Birmingham’s Mitchell and Butlers Ltd. Mitchell was an admirer of the Arts and Crafts Movement and he employed Sydney Barnsley, Norman Jewson and Peter Waals to extend and furnish the house, and to create the terraced gardens to the west of the house, with the orchard beyond. In 1929 the south wing was added to the house by Healing & Overbury (Sydney Barnsley having died in 1926) and the adjacent paddock was included in the garden as a sloping lawn with vegetable garden beyond. The decorative iron gates which comprise the Tulip Gate located in the yew hedge between the north forecourt and the west garden, and the Rose Gate located in the yew hedge between the south garden and the east garden, appear to have been added in the 1920s as part of these works. Both gates are attributed to the Arts and Crafts architect and craftsman, Norman Jewson (1884-1975). There is no documentation confirming that Jewson designed the gates but many sources attribute them to him, including an exhibition catalogue from 1987 and the ‘Gazetteer of Arts and Crafts Architecture in the Cotswold Region’ produced by Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums in 1992.

Arthur Mitchell owned the house until his death in 1965, after which the house was sold to a Martin Crabbe. Crabbe remodelled the house and sold the Arts and Crafts furniture designed by Peter Waals. In 1980 the house and part of the grounds were bought by the Community of St Peter and St Paul, and in 1991 the community gifted the estate to the Diocese of Gloucester. The house and the gardens were subsequently restored by the Glenfall House Trust. The house was opened as a conference centre in 1992.

Details

Garden gate, known as Rose Gate, 1920s. Attributed to the Arts and Crafts architect and craftsman Norman Jewson.

MATERIALS: the gate is made of cast and wrought iron.

DESCRIPTION: positioned within the yew hedge between the south and east garden, the rectangular pedestrian gate is set within a decorative iron frame with supporting brackets to its west and east face. The gate is divided into two sections: the lower section has stick balusters with each alternate baluster including a twisted section to its mid-point; the upper section has a central decorative panel which includes roses, rose leafs, inverted arises and scrollwork. The frame is similarly divided and the lower section repeats the design of the lower part of the gate. The upper section of the frame and the horizontal section above the gate, has a central baluster with inverted arises and a rose to its mid-point. To either side is a stick baluster with three twisted sections. At each of the top corners of the frame is a scrolled floral motif comprising a central rose and rose leaf detail.

Sources

Books and journals
Gordon, C, Gazetteer of Arts and Crafts Architecture in the Cotswold Region, (1992), 12
Mander, , Verity, , Wynne-Jones, , Norman Jewson, 1884-1975, (1987)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.