Walcot House (Number 2) and Melmerby (Number 4) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. Villa. 33 related planning applications.
Walcot House (Number 2) and Melmerby (Number 4)
- WRENN ID
- fading-steel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1955
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Walcot House (Number 2) and Melmerby (Number 4), Tivoli Road, GL50 2TG
- OS grid reference
- SO 942 214
- Coordinates
- 51.89165, -2.08521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached villas, built around 1830 to 1840. The buildings are constructed with ashlar facing brick, and have a hipped slate roof with a stucco and brick ridge stack. Features include an iron balcony and railings.
The villas are two storeys high with a basement, and have eight windows on the first floor (arranged 4:4). The central six windows project forward, and the ground-floor entrance bay is also canted forward. The ashlar detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor, topped by a modillion band. The first floor of the central range has Doric pilasters at the ends and between the windows. The windows have tooled architraves; those on the ground floor have a frieze and cornice. The first-floor windows are 6/6 sash windows, while the taller ground-floor windows are 9/6 sashes, all set in plain reveals.
A flight of roll-edged steps leads to the central, paired entrances. The doors are 4-panel, with the left-hand door partially glazed, and are sheltered by a shared porch with a tristyle Doric entablature.
Photographs from 1993 show the interior of No.2, which includes a swept open-well staircase with rod-and-bobbin balusters, and ceiling friezes. The balcony to the porch has a scrolled lozenge motif.
The houses are located along Tivoli Road, which was laid out on Merrett’s Map of 1834, with some dwellings to the north already constructed.
Local climate
Walcot House (Number 2) and Melmerby (Number 4) 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 33 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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