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CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE ST GEORGE'S ROAD 630-1/13/821 (South side) 05/05/72 Cheltenham Ladies College with attached walls, railings, gates and gate piers

GV II

College with attached railings, walls and piers. 1873 with later additions and alterations including 1876, 1881-2, 1884, 1887, 1890, 1893-4, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1909, 1913 and 1927. Architects: John Middleton (including main range to St George's Road), HA Prothero (1889-90 Montpellier Street wing), LW Bernard (link building), ER Robson (1896-8, further additions including Princess Hall). Rough-faced stone over brick with red and black tile roof, stone end and internal stacks. Mostly in decorative Gothic Domestic style. PLAN: a quadrangle with a long wing up to St George's Road by Waller and Son; further block to Bayshill Road 1936, also in Cotswold idiom. EXTERIOR: range to St George's Road: main range of 2 storeys, with 3-storey centre, 8 first-floor windows arranged 1:1:2:1:1:2; with 2-storey, 2-bay infill at left and one-and-a-half storey lodge to far left. Main range: 2nd and 4th (entrance) bays break forwards and have off-set buttresses. Quoins, chamfered plinth. Ground floor, to left are 2-light mullion-and-transom, trefoil-headed windows under 4-centred arches; at right are two 2-light windows with straight-headed windows and panel of carved foliage between, otherwise 3-stepped-and-cusped-light mullion and transom windows with 4-centred arches. Off-centre right entrance: double pointed doors with glazed traceried lights to upper part with chamfered head and triple-chamfered moulded surround. Further pedestrian entrance at right with plank door and similar pedestrian entrance to wall at far right. First floor: mainly 2-trefoil-light windows with quatrefoils to heads, all with gables over, except to second bay a similar 3-light window. Over entrance a canted and gabled oriel window with 3 stepped cusped lights. Range at left has mullion and transom ground-floor windows and 3-light mullion windows to first floor. Off-set buttresses to ground floor, that to centre supports plinth and statue in niche. Low parapet. Lodge at left has arcade of 5 trefoil-headed Romanesque-style windows and granite columnettes between, with continuous trefoiled hoodmould. Stepped cornice. Peaked roof with triangular roof dormers with trefoil and quatrefoil windows.

Left return (to Montpellier Street). Mainly 2 storeys, some attics to gables, and 3-stage tower with tile spire. Mainly 3-light mullion and transom windows, the upper lights cusped, windows to first floor are stepped, those to ground-floor are straight-headed. Off-centre tower has pointed openings in moulded surrounds and plank door. To south of Robson block is a single-storey hall which has buttressed elevation with dentil cornice and mullion windows, with dormers and louvred pyramidal-roofed ventilators, facing east. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork, woodwork and stained glass. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: abutting entrance are railings on low chamfered walls have alternate sword handle finials with 2 pedestrian gates to right and left of main entrance and further pedestrian entrance in wall at left between piers with off-sets and cross-gabled and peaked caps. Railings continue to left return with 2 further piers. HISTORICAL NOTE: the school moved to this site in the 1870s. Walls abut Railings and Gatepiers to Fauconberg House, St George's Road (qv). A large, late Victorian school complex, the evolution of which can be clearly read in the structure, but which is architecturally most notable for the earlier parts by Middleton and Prothero; the other elevations form a significant and familiar feature of the streetscape. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 136; Illustrated Guide to the Cheltenham Ladies' College: 1931-).



Listing NGR: SO9455922094

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