Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings

WRENN ID
fallen-corner-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 May 1972
Type
House
Address
Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings, GL53 7DQ
OS grid reference
SO 950 227
Coordinates
51.90285, -2.07273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 32 is a house, now used as offices, located on Portland Street in Cheltenham. It was built around 1816 and has undergone later additions and alterations, including upper storeys added in the mid-20th century and 20th-century gates between the piers. The building features ashlar stonework over brick with a hipped slate roof. The exterior consists of three storeys above a basement, with a symmetrical arrangement of windows: one in the center and two on either side on the first floor. The central two-window section projects slightly forward. There are decorative bands on the first and second floors, and the ground floor has two Doric columns with a frieze and cornice. The outer ranges have windows that also project slightly. The windows are a mix of 6/6 and 3/6 sash types, with those on the ground floor set in chamfered recesses. Each end range has an entrance between the columns featuring six-fielded-panel doors, with the right door being partly glazed, and is flanked by 4/4 sash windows. The building has wide eaves at the center.

The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes area railings with urn finials on the main range, and forecourt walls that extend approximately 15 meters with piers and gates, plus an additional wall about 3 meters long. This wall is approximately 1.5 meters high and has a coping. Historically, it was presumably built as a residence for the chaplain of the Countess of Huntingdon at the nearby Portland Chapel, which is now known as Chapel Rock Gym.

Local climate

Number 32 with Attached Walls Piers and Area Railings 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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