Iveagh House

Iveagh House is a three-storey, attic and basement terraced house, now converted into flats, originally built around 1828 by J.B. Papworth. The house fell into ruinous condition by 1969 and was largely rebuilt in facsimile in 1984. It is constructed of bath stone and stucco, with a slate roof, and stands on Lansdown Crescent in Cheltenham. The house continues the line of the crescent but differs in style, finish and date from numbers 2 and the other end of the crescent.

The exterior features an ashlar ground floor with stucco above, scored to imitate ashlar, and an ashlar cornice. A brick core is concealed, with a concealed roof. An iron balcony is also present. The ground floor is horizontally rusticated, with bands marking the first and second floors, a frieze, and a crowning cornice. The ground floor window is tripartite with sash windows. The first floor has a tripartite French casement with a pedimented head and an iron balcony. The second floor has 6/6 sash windows in architrave surrounds. A single flat-topped dormer sits above. The entrance front features a central stone porch with Doric columns, flanked by piers of plain square sections, and a 5-panel door with a rectangular overlight. The front elevation has three windows per floor: the ground floor has 6/6 sash windows; the first floor has French casements with pedimented heads and iron balconies; the second floor has 6/6 sashes with architrave surrounds. Three flat-topped dormers are above. The first-floor balcony has curved rods and circles to its frieze. The interior was not inspected during listing.

The house forms an important visual stop to Lansdown Crescent. It was carefully rebuilt following partial demolition in 1980. Its design relates to Papworth's 1825 'circular plot'; building continued on the Crescent until 1850. Iveagh House is grouped with numbers 2-12 and 13-47 Lansdown Crescent.