Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER DRIVE
630-1/18/522 (North side)
12/03/55 No.16
Lonsdale House and attached area
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELLIER DRIVE
(North side)
Lonsdale House and No.89 (Devonshire
House))

GV II

Includes: No.89 Devonshire House BATH ROAD.
Pair of houses and attached area railings, now hotel (left)
and flats (right). c1800-1820. Ashlar over brick with slate
mansard roof to left, concealed to right and wrought-iron
balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and basement and single-storey
entrance porch set back to right, 6 first-floor windows (3 per
house). Ashlar detailing includes horizontal rustication to
ground floor at left and at right forms arched recesses around
windows. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor,
those to first floor at right (Devonshire House) have tooled
architraves to cornices. Second floor band; frieze and cornice
over second floor; crowning cornice over attic storey to
right. Roof dormers to left. Entrance to left has door with
overlight with glazing bars. Porch set back to right return
has steps to double doors and overlight with glazing bars
between incised Greek key pilasters, frieze, cornice and
blocking course. Rear: full-height extensions to each house.
Each has 3 tripartite sashes, 6/6 between 2/2, with further
3/3 between 1/1 sash to Devonshire House; otherwise mainly 6/6
sashes; windows to left, first and second floors have blind
boxes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have cross-and-circle
motif; first-floor continuous balcony has rod-and-circle
motif.
Occupies an important site on the corner of Bath Road, one of
the main approach roads to Cheltenham town centre.

Listing NGR: SO9488721804

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397871

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014