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Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9028 / 51°54'10"N

Longitude: -2.0727 / 2°4'21"W

OS Eastings: 395092

OS Northings: 222703

OS Grid: SO950227

Mapcode National: GBR 2M4.QRH

Mapcode Global: VHB1Q.1F2M

Plus Code: 9C3VWW3G+4W

Entry Name: Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings

Listing Date: 5 May 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1387578

English Heritage Legacy ID: 475553

ID on this website: 101387578

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50

County: Gloucestershire

District: Cheltenham

Electoral Ward/Division: Pittville

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Cheltenham

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Cheltenham Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

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Description


CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PORTLAND STREET 630-1/10/689 (West side) 05/05/72 No.32 with attached walls, piers and area railings

GV II

House, now offices, with attached walls and piers and area railings. c1816 with later additions and alterations including mid-C20 upper storeys to end ranges; C20 gates between piers. Ashlar over brick with slate roof, hipped to centre part; iron railings and ashlar forecourt walls. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, with 1:2:1 first-floor windows. The central 2-window range breaks forward. First- and second-floor bands to main range; side ranges have, to ground floor, 2 Doric columns in antis with frieze and cornice; band over first-floor window; the outer ranges have breakforwards to windows. 6/6 and 3/6 sashes, those to ground floor of main range in chamfered recesses. Entrances between columns to each end range: 6-fielded-panel doors, that to right part glazed, between 4/4 sashes. Wide eaves to centre. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings to main range with urn finials to stanchions. Forecourt walls abut at right for approx 15m with piers and gates between and further wall for approx 3m; wall approx 1.5m high and coped. HISTORICAL NOTE: presumably built as a house for the Countess of Huntingdon's chaplain at Portland Chapel, now Chapel Rock Gym, North Place (qv), which it abuts to rear. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 150).



Listing NGR: SO9509022700

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