Priorslee is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Villa, nursing home. 9 related planning applications.
Priorslee
- WRENN ID
- long-keystone-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Villa, nursing home
- Address
- Priorslee, Priors Lodge, Pittville Circus, GL52 2PX
- OS grid reference
- SO 955 228
- Coordinates
- 51.90377, -2.06596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a villa, dating from approximately 1840 to 1850, and now used as a nursing home. It was likely built by Edward Cope. The exterior is stucco over brick, with a renewed tile roof and stacks to the ridge and right end. The architectural style is Tudor Gothic.
The villa is two storeys high with attics in the gables, and has a basement. It has three windows on the first floor. The end bays project forward and are gabled, with further ranges set back to the returns; the range to the left is full height and gabled. Stucco detailing includes hoodmoulds with label stops over most openings. The central entrance has a four-panel door with sidelights and an overlight, set within a pointed-arched recess. The ground floor has four-light wooden mullion windows with two levels of transoms. The first floor has a similar three-light window to the left, a two-light window to the centre, and a rectangular bay to the right, featuring 2/1 sash windows. The attics have pairs of 4/2 sash windows, and there is a skylight in the centre. A basement is concealed.
The interior has not been inspected.
The Circus itself was laid out in 1839-40 by Cope on land purchased from Joseph Pitt, although the basic layout of the wider Pittville Estate was designed by John Forbes.
Local climate
Priorslee 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 — 36 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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