The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. Villa. 1 related planning application.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- distant-wall-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Elms, 44, London Road, GL1 3NZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 838 188
- Coordinates
- 51.86771, -2.23614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a detached villa, now serving as health authority offices, built around 1825. It features a stuccoed brick exterior, a hipped slate roof, and stuccoed brick stacks. The building is a wide block with a central entrance that projects from the front and is accessed through a single-storey porch, with a single-storey wing to the left.
The villa has two storeys, an attic, and a basement. The symmetrical front has three bays, an offset plinth, a raised band at the first-floor level, a crowning frieze band, and a plain cornice band. The ground floor includes a projecting single-storey porch designed in the Tuscan order, which is enclosed at each end. The inset opening is protected by a projecting portico, with columns at the outer corners supporting the entablature and parapet above. The doorway features a segmental arched fanlight.
On either side of the porch are sash windows, and on the first floor, there is a tall sash in the projecting central bay, set in an opening with a sill at the level of the projecting band and a flat arched head with five raised-and-stepped voussoirs. The side bays have shorter sashes in openings with projecting stone sills, and all the sashes have glazing bars with three over four panes. Similar sashes are present on the sides and rear of the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Elms receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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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