Chalfont House and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Villa. 14 related planning applications.
Chalfont House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- sharp-quoin-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Chalfont House and Attached Railings, 61, the Park, GL50 2SA
- OS grid reference
- SO 938 207
- Coordinates
- 51.88567, -2.09145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chalfont House is a villa built between 1833 and 1850, featuring attached railings. It is constructed of stucco over brick and has a hipped slate roof with a stucco ridge stack and iron railings. The building stands two storeys high with a basement and has five first-floor windows arranged in a 2:2:1 pattern, with the central two-window section projecting slightly.
At the ground floor, there is a single-storey porch that projects to the right, balanced by a similar projection on the left. The stucco detailing includes tooled architraves around the windows, a first-floor band topped with pilaster strips, and a crowning cornice along the projecting section. The windows throughout are 6/6 sashes. The entrance is located to the right and features a splayed flight of six roll-edged steps, with the lower steps being curved, leading up to a four-panel door set within a shallow Ionic porch that has a pulvinated frieze and cornice. To the left of the entrance, there is a projecting niche with a tooled surround, and the projecting range has raised ends. The rear of the building retains 6/6 sash windows.
The interior has not been inspected. The railings flanking the steps have stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. At the rear, there is a verandah that has been glazed in and features a latticework balustrade.
Historically, The Park was laid out by its owner Thomas Billings by 1833 as an oval tree-lined drive with a central park, which briefly became a zoological garden in the mid-19th century. In 1839, the development was purchased by Samuel Daukes, who continued the building process. Chalfont House is one of the key developments influenced by the designs of John White and John Nash for Regent's Park in London between 1809 and 1811.
Local climate
Chalfont House and Attached 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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