Number 46 and 48 with Attached Wall and Pier and Area Railings to Number 48 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. Villas. 10 related planning applications.
Number 46 and 48 with Attached Wall and Pier and Area Railings to Number 48
- WRENN ID
- high-chimney-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1955
- Type
- Villas
- Address
- Number 46 and 48 with Attached Wall and Pier and Area Railings to Number 48, GL52 2DA
- OS grid reference
- SO 955 230
- Coordinates
- 51.90583, -2.06542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of semi-detached villas with an attached wall, pier, and area railings, built between 1839 and 1840. They were designed by Abraham Tyler, a builder responsible for many properties in the Pittville area. The villas are constructed with stucco over brick, featuring a hipped slate roof, with mock slates on the right-hand side, and renewed brick party-wall stacks. They have iron verandahs, window boxes, and area railings. The design follows a double-depth plan, incorporating outer side hallways and service ranges to the rear.
The facades are two storeys high, with a basement level, and feature six first-floor windows. Decorative stucco detailing includes a first-floor band topped by three Doric pilasters positioned between the central windows. The original 6/6 sash windows remain, housed in plain reveals with sills. Venetian shutters and S-latches are present on the first floor. Each villa has a front entrance with a flight of roll-edged steps leading to a four-panel door; the upper panels are raised and fielded while the lower panels are flush, accompanied by sidelights and a divided overlight. The roof features a central raised and coped divide with kneeler details. The returns of the buildings have three blind first-floor openings.
The interiors retain original joinery, including panelled shutters to the ground-floor windows. The verandahs exhibit an X and circle motif in the uprights, with openwork friezes. Area railings to the right have an X-motif balustrade, and the ground-floor window boxes on the left feature an X motif. An approximately 2-meter-high coped wall adjoins the properties on the right, sloping down to a pier.
These villas were constructed as part of a development initiated in 1835-42 for Joseph Pitt, with the overall layout designed by the architect John Forbes. Numbers 34 to 60 on Prestbury Road form a group, as illustrated on Merrett's Map of 1834.
Local climate
Number 46 and 48 with Attached Wall and Pier and Area Railings to Number 48 receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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