Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE DOURO ROAD 630-1/16/302 (East side) 12/03/55 Nos.2 AND 3 and attached railings to No.3 (Formerly Listed as: DOURO ROAD Nos.1-6 Douro Lodge)

GV II

2 semi-detached villas and attached railings to No.3. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1830-50. Architects probably RW and C Jearrad. Stucco over brick with slate roof and stucco party-wall and end stacks with cornices and iron railings. Double depth plan with outer side stairhalls. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement (to centre), 8 first-floor windows, the central 4 of which break forward, and with projecting single-storey porches to end ranges; to rear the end ranges project and are of 3 storeys, with 2-storey and attics to centre, all on basement. Stucco detailing includes: quoins to angles; tooled architraves to windows: those to first floor are eared and those to ground floor have cornices on consoles and sills. Mainly 6/6 sashes, taller and with blind boxes to ground floor, 2 x 1/1 sashes to ground floor of No 3. Wide eaves on brackets; 4 attic roof dormers have casements and broken pediments. Entrances: flight of roll-edged steps to solid porches with Ionic pilasters; that to No.2 has additional projecting glazed porch with side-lights and fanlight (some coloured glass), No 3 has round-arched opening with keystone and fanlight; double 4-panel doors (that to No.2 part-glazed); frieze, cornice and blocking course. No.2 retains 4 x tall end, party-wall and lateral stacks with cornices. Right return has round-arched staircase sash. Rear: end ranges have tripartite sashes to first and second floors: 6/6 between 2/2; similar to ground floor, No.3, whilst No.2 has pair of 6/6 sashes, both with tooled architraves and cornices on consoles. Some 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: railings with stick balusters to one side of steps of No.3. Forms a group with Douro Lodge (qv), and Nos 4 and 5 (qv), and No.6, (qv) Douro Road, of overall Classical design with Italianate touches to the roof and dormers. The symmetrical design consists of 2 pairs of semi-detached villas between detached villas.

Listing NGR: SO9401821907

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