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SO9522NW
630-1/10/712

CHELTENHAM
WELLINGTON ROAD (north west side)
No 2 Sligo House


(Formerly listed as Sligo House, PRESTBURY ROAD, previously listed as PRESTBURY ROAD (North side) Christie College)

05/05/72

GV
II
Villa. 1839-40. Edward Cope, builder. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof with two rear stucco stacks.

EXTERIOR: two storeys on basement, three first floor windows. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves to ground floor windows with broken segmental pediments on corbel brackets; first floor sill band; wreath above each first floor window; crowning cornice on paired console brackets. 6/6 sashes throughout, all in plain reveals and with sills; renewed 8/8 sashes to basement. Central entrance, flight of five renewed roll-edged steps to four-raised-and-fielded-panel door with sidelights and divided overlight in tooled architrave. Left return: three first-floor windows, each in stepped-forward range and that to right in full-height bow. 6/6 sashes, those to bow are curved on section and similar stucco detailing.

INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including panelled shutters.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to sides of steps a stuccoed balustrade with blind oval motif and cylindrical end piers.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the north west side of Prestbury Road was built upon first as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1835-42, the general layout being designed by the architect John Forbes. Built by Edward Cope, a leading local builder and speculator who was responsible for laying out the area around Pittville Circus, it was sold in March 1847 to John Bird of the East India Company for £2060. Originally known as Alwington Villa.

One of a good group of villas, along with Southend House (No.32) (qv), and Tower House (qv), Prestbury Road and Nos 1and 2, Pittville Circus (qv), at the important junction of Prestbury Road, Wellington Road, Albert Road and Pittville Circus.
(Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 19-20,74).

Listing NGR: SO9544922968

External Links

• Wikidata Q26667246

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)