Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW LONDON ROAD
630-1/14/465 (North side)
12/03/55 Nos.2, 4 AND 6
Oxford Buildings with attached
railings to Nos.4 and 6

GV II

Includes: No.1 and attached railings HEWLETT ROAD.
Terrace of 4 houses and attached railings to Nos 4 and 6
London Road and No.1, Hewlett Road. c1790-1820, shown on the
Post Office Map of 1820, with later additions and alterations
including service range to No.2. Ashlar over brick with slate
roof and wrought- and iron balconies, porches and railings.
Double-depth plan with service wings to rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 12 first-floor windows (3 per
house). First- and second-floor bands; second-floor band
inscribed `OXFORD BUILDINGS'. 6/6 sashes where original,
taller to first floor; basements have 3/3 and 4/4 sashes; all
in plain reveals and with sills. Left entrances: 3 steps to
4-panel doors (some part-glazed) with fanlights with batwing
and circle motif glazing bars to 2 to left. Crowning low
parapet and copings. Left return has 3 storeys, 3 first-floor
windows. First-floor band surmounted by pilaster strips to
ends and between windows which interrupt second-floor band.
First floor has 6/6 sashes, second floor has 3/3 sashes, all
in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills, those to
second floor with cornices and aprons, further apron to
first-floor central windows. Ground floor has C20 plate-glass
shop-front windows. Central entrance a part-glazed, 4-panel
door with sidelights and overlight. Crowning low parapet and
copings. Rear retains some 3/3 sashes.
INTERIOR: No.1 Hewlett Road has marble fireplace with fluted
sides; original joinery includes panelled shutters to several
windows and 6-fielded-panel doors, otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first floor, outer windows have
individual balconies with enriched rods and central scroll
panels; similar balconies to left return. Porches except to
No.6 have lozenge and scrolls, oval, and lattice motif to
uprights (tent roof to No.2 missing) have embellished
uprights. Forecourt lancet railings and gate with urns to
stanchions to No.1 Hewlett Road (London Road facade). Area
railings to No.4 are embellished rods; stick area railings to
No.6.
(Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham:
1975-1984: 23; Post Office Map: Cheltenham: 1820-).

Listing NGR: SO9537922005

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398371

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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