Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521SW THIRLESTAINE ROAD 630-1/24/943 (North side) 05/05/72 Thirlestaine Hall (excluding 1940s wing to north-east) (Formerly Listed as: THIRLESTAINE ROAD (North side) Thirlestaine Hall excluding modern wing to NE)

GV II

Large house, now offices. 1855-7 for Johan Andreas Frerichs, architect: Daniel Humphris; with observatory c1909 for John Player and later conversion by GH Ryland. Stucco over brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs. Italianate style. PLAN: double-depth plan with central hallway & range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with 2-storey, 3-window orangery to left. Main range: ashlar detailing includes, to main range, rustication to ground floor surmounted by first-floor band and quoins above; frieze and wide eaves on brackets. Ground floor has French windows with margin lights; first floor has 8/8 sashes in plain reveals and with sills on feet, tooled architraves with cornices. Central entrance, Roman Doric porch with paired columns, entablature with triglyphs and metopes and balustrade above. To rear, on the roof, is an observatory with a copper dome. Rear has canted central bay. Similar detailing as front facade. Orangery, to left. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First-floor band, crowning entablature. Ground floor windows are round-headed, with multi-pane casements; 6/6 and central 6/6 between 2/2 sashes above. INTERIOR: hall has 2 columnar Corinthian screen; double drawing room to right has marble fireplaces and heavy plasterwork with deep acanthus friezes (similar to those in No.83 Pittville Lawn (qv)); doorcases have architraves with Neo-Classical type friezes and cornices. Many rooms reputed to retain plasterwork and fireplaces. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was occupied by the American Services of Supply during the Second World War (1942-5). Large 1940s wing to north east added when the house became an hotel is not included. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 131; Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: Blake S: A short history of Thirlestaine Hall: 1986-: 52-56).

Listing NGR: SO9535821170

External Links

• Wikidata Q26667700

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