College House and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. Villa. 1 related planning application.

College House and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
far-chancel-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1955
Type
Villa
Address
College House and Attached Railings, Thirlestaine Road, GL53 7AA
OS grid reference
SO 949 213
Coordinates
51.89065, -2.0752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

College House is a villa built between 1820 and 1850, featuring stucco over brick, a hipped slate roof, and brick ridge and end stacks. It is accompanied by iron railings. The building has two storeys above a basement and five first-floor windows. Notable stucco details include a first-floor band and tooled architraves around the windows. The ground floor has taller 6/6 sash windows, while the basement has 3/6 sashes, all set in plain reveals with sills. The central entrance is accessed by a flight of roll-edged steps leading to a six-fielded-panel door, flanked by sidelights and a fanlight with batwing and circle glazing bars. This entrance is framed by a distyle Roman Doric porch adorned with wreaths on the entablature. At the rear, the building retains 6/6 and 8/8 sashes, and features an off-centre left round-arched staircase window with round-arched glazing at the top, along with a 6/6 sash between two 2/2 sashes, which has an elliptically-arched recess above. The interior has not been inspected. The area railings display a diamond motif, with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail on the sides of the steps. College House occupies a prominent position.

Local climate

College 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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