Description

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SO9421NW
630-1/17/436

CHELTENHAM
LANSDOWN CRESCENT (North side)
Nouvelle and The Old Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nouvelle)

12/03/55

GV
II
Villa, now flats, and house. c1831-48. By R.W and C Jearrad. Ashlar, painted, over brick with hipped slate roof and iron balcony. Central hallway, double depth plan service range set back at left.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys on basement, five first-floor windows, the centre bay recessed. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band, first-floor moulded sill band; cornices on consoles over ground-floor windows, moulded architraves to ground- and first-floor windows. Ground floor has tall 1/1 sashes; first-floor and basement has 3/6 sashes. Central entrance, flight of steps to panelled door in pilastered surround with frieze and cornice. Right return has 3:1 first-floor windows, with projecting, gabled range to right. Mainly 6/6 sashes in tooled architraves, those to breakforward have cornices on consoles; ground-floor window to breakforward is tripartite with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Service range set back at left has two-storey, single bay with 6/6 sash and blind opening, then two low-storey, two-window range with 2/6 sash.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor balcony to gabled range to right return has Carron Company double-heart and anthemion motif.

A similar design to Pembury House and Little Pembury (qv). Part of the former Lansdowne Estate, a notable example of suburban town planning.

Listing NGR: SO9421421896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617939

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]