Faithfull House (Northern Part) and Attached Area Balustrade is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. A Victorian Terraced houses. 13 related planning applications.
Faithfull House (Northern Part) and Attached Area Balustrade
- WRENN ID
- tenth-vestry-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1955
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Faithfull House (Northern Part) and Attached Area Balustrade, Suffolk Square
- OS grid reference
- SO 945 215
- Coordinates
- 51.89262, -2.08067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Faithfull House (northern part) and attached area balustrade are two terraced houses, dating to the 1840s and converted in the 1970s. They were likely designed by Edward Jenkins for developer James Fisher. The houses are constructed with stucco over brick, featuring an ashlar porch and a concealed roof. There are iron balconies and an attached area balustrade.
The houses are three storeys high, with a basement, and have six windows on the first floor. A two-window breakforward incorporates fluted Corinthian pilasters at the ends and the centre, extending through the first and second floors, along with outer end pilasters; a first-floor band; and a crowning dentil entablature. The ground floor has horizontal rustication, drawn into the voussoirs over the windows. The windows are predominantly 6/6 sashes with plain reveals and sills. First and second-floor windows are set within tooled architraves, with those on the first floor having a frieze and cornice. There are paired entrances; the entrance on the left has been blocked and replaced with a sash window. The other entrance has a four-panel door, partly glazed, with a margin-light overlight. A flight of six roll-edged steps leads to a five-columnar Corinthian portico with a dentil entablature.
The interior retains many original features, including two adjoining dogleg staircases with alternate stick and embellished rod balusters, and wreathed handrails. Panelled shutters are present on some windows, and the ceilings feature embellished cornices with grape friezes.
The first floor has a continuous balcony from the Carron Company, featuring a double heart-and-anthemion design. The area balustrade incorporates a double stylized heart motif.
Suffolk Square occupies land purchased by the Earl of Suffolk from the de la Bere family. His daughter later sold much of the land, which now comprises Suffolk Square. The Square was planned but not fully complete on the Post Office Map of 1820, and Faithfull House was not marked on Merrett's Map of 1834. The building forms part of a distinguished group within Suffolk Square. A residential home also includes Faithfull House (central and southern part), which is listed separately.
Local climate
Faithfull House (Northern Part) and Attached Area Balustrade 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 — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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