Picton House is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Town house, flats. 2 related planning applications.
Picton House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-chalk-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Town house, flats
- Address
- Picton House, Wellington Parade, GL1 3NF
- OS grid reference
- SO 836 187
- Coordinates
- 51.86681, -2.23824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Piction House is a town house, built around 1825 and restored and converted into flats in 1988. It is located on Wellington Parade in Gloucester. The building is constructed of ashlar to the front, brick to the rear, with a slate roof, and consists of a symmetrical block with a rear wing to the right.
The front facade is monumental in style, with a symmetrical arrangement of three bays and a slight projection to the central bay. The ground floor has a recessed, plain entrance porch with a moulded cornice and carved brackets above the doorway. Each side bay has a sash window with 3x4 panes, set within a moulded architrave. A moulded string course runs between the pilasters at window sill level. The first floor also features sash windows with 3x4 panes, the central one framed by a floating cornice supported on brackets. The side bays have sashes in openings with eared architraves and projecting sills. A giant Roman Doric pilaster order frames the facade, with pilasters at each end and the outer pilaster of each pair clasping the corners. These pilasters support a crowning entablature and a parapet with piers and a moulded capping.
Inside, the staircase in the entrance hall has open treads, stick balusters, and a swept handrail. The building is believed to contain other original features.
Local climate
Picton House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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