Compass House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. Villa. 4 related planning applications.
Compass House
- WRENN ID
- muted-finial-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1955
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Compass House, Lypiatt Road, GL50 2QJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 943 216
- Coordinates
- 51.89332, -2.0842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Compass House is a villa, built around 1826-32, and later used as offices. The rear of the property was extended in the 1960s, but this addition has no particular architectural merit. The villa was designed by Edward Jenkins. It is constructed of ashlar facing brick, with a concealed roof.
The exterior is two storeys high, featuring three windows on the first floor. Architectural details include outer sunk pilasters and a first-floor band. A central section projects, featuring a ground-floor tetrastyle Ionic portico with a frieze and a low parapet decorated with wreaths. A flight of roll-edged steps leads to the eight-fielded-panel double doors and overlight. The ground floor has tripartite windows with tall one/one sash windows and a tooled architrave and cornice supported by console brackets. The first floor has one/one sash windows, with the central window also featuring a tooled architrave. All windows are set in plain reveals with panelled aprons. A crowning frieze and cornice tops the elevation, finished with a blocking course. The left return has a full-height bow window featuring two/two and one/one sashes, curved on plan.
The interior was not inspected.
Compass House, along with Burlington House, Carrick House, Imperial House and Stanmer House, forms a notable group of villas along the east side of Lypiatt Road. These villas were designed by Jenkins as part of an estate planned for James Fisher, which included Suffolk Square. Documents relating to the designs are reputedly held in the Gloucester Record Office.
Local climate
Compass House 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 — 3 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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