Langham House is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Town house. 4 related planning applications.
Langham House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-granite-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Langham House, 18, Berkeley Street, GL1 2JB
- OS grid reference
- SO 829 186
- Coordinates
- 51.866, -2.24867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langham House is a town house that was originally built around 1770 and has had some alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick with stone detailing and has a slate roof with brick stacks. The building has a double-depth layout with a short wing to the rear left and a service wing to the rear right, featuring an entrance hall that leads to a staircase at the back.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a cellar, with a front that has four bays. It features a rendered offset plinth and a stone modillion crowning cornice, topped with a rendered parapet that has stone caps. The entrance doorway is located in the second bay from the left, framed by three-quarter columns with moulded bases on plinth blocks and feathered capitals. These columns support dosserets decorated with paterae and an open pediment above a semicircular arch that encloses a radiating cast-iron fanlight. The entrance has a six-panel door, with the four upper panels being fielded. The other bays on the ground floor and all bays on the first and second floors have sashes with glazing bars (three by four panes), all set in similar openings with rubbed brick flat arches and projecting stone sills.
Inside, the house features 18th-century fielded panel doors and other joinery. There is a late 18th-century open-well staircase that includes a curtail step, open string with shaped brackets at the tread ends, slender column newels, stick balusters, a ramped handrail, and a dado rail. Several rooms have late 18th-century chimney pieces with moulded architrave surrounds. Notably, in the first-floor front room to the left, there is a chimney-piece with pilasters supporting an entablature adorned with classical figures on frieze blocks. The chimney-piece in the front room to the right features an architrave frame and an entablature with carved rosettes on the frieze. The property also includes a brick-walled cellar.
Local climate
Langham 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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