Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521SW THIRLESTAINE ROAD
630-1/24/933 (North side)
14/12/83 Dewerstone House

GV II

Villa. 1870s. Possibly by John Middleton. Stone with ashlar
dressings and banded tile and fishscale roof with tall,
ornamented ridge stacks in twos and threes with cornices, and
ornamental ridge tiles, end stack. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement and with attics to gables, 3
bays. Central entrance in projecting gabled porch: 3 steps
with black and white tiles to pointed plank door in roll- and
ovolo-moulded surround on columnette, with hoodmould with face
stops. To left a canted bay window with 1:3:1 ogeed-trefoil
lights, straight-headed and with mullions and transoms; then a
2-light, similar window with quatrefoil in apex. At right a
ground-floor canted bay with similar windows. First floor has
outer 3-light window with pointed relieving arch, then
triangular oriel with face decoration and similar windows.
Outer gables have quatrefoil lights. Decorative barge-boards
throughout. Left return has 5 first-floor windows. Gable with
decorative barge-boards to each bay, taller to centre. To
centre a full-height canted bay. First floor has outer paired
mullion and transom windows with upper trefoiled lights and
trefoil to gable. Similar 2- and 1-light windows to first
floor and 3-light windows to ground floor. Basement has
mullion windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO9518621248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667690

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)