Tunstall House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Tunstall House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-screen-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Tunstall House, 3, Park Place
- OS grid reference
- SO 943 214
- Coordinates
- 51.89191, -2.08348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tunstall House is a villa dating to approximately 1830 to 1832. It is constructed of rendered brick with a concealed roof and features tall stucco stacks on the left end and rear. The building has cast and wrought-iron window boxes and railings.
The villa is three storeys high, with a basement, and has one window on the first floor and three on the first floor, including a two-storey entrance bay set back to the left. Stucco detailing includes pilaster strips to the ends and centre of the main range, a continuous cornice over the first floor of the left range, a crowning frieze and cornice. Ground floor windows on the main range have tooled architraves, friezes and cornices. The ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes, while the second floor has 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills.
The entrance on the left has a flight of renewed steps leading to a distyle Ionic porch with an entablature and blocking course. It contains a four-panel, part-glazed double door. A return elevation on the left has 6/6 and 3/3 sashes. The interior has not been inspected.
Subsidiary features include a scrolled X-motif balustrade to the side of the porch, embellished balusters to the steps, and window boxes on the ground floor incorporating a double scroll motif. The basement has scrolled guards.
Park Place was developed by 1832, and Tunstall House abuts Tunstall Lodge, No. 1 Park Place, and No. 74 Suffolk Road.
Local climate
Tunstall 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 — 29 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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