Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521NW LONDON ROAD 630-1/19/474 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.26-36 (Even) Oxford Parade and attached railings

GV II*

Terrace of 6 houses, now houses and flats, and attached railings. c1780-1820. Ashlar over brick with slate roofs where original, brick party-wall stacks; iron area railings, porches, verandah and balconies. Double-depth plan with service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, and attic to right return, 18 first-floor windows (3 per house); the centre 2 houses break forwards slightly. Ashlar detailing includes first- and second-floor bands, crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course. Ground and first-floors have 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor; second floor has 3/3 sashes where original; all in plain reveals and with sills; blind boxes remain to No.30. Entrances to right (that to No 36 to right return): steps to 6-panel doors (some part-glazed) with lozenge frieze and fanlights with batwing and circle glazing bars where original. Right return has mainly blind openings, similar off-centre entrance. Right return has 5+2 windows. Attic to right return, roof dormer has 2/2 sash. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters to some windows, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead area railings with urn finials to stanchions signed 'Marshall, Cheltenham'; tent-roofed porches to Nos 26, 28, 32 and 34 have openwork frieze and scrolled lozenge motif; first-floor balconies to Nos 26, 28, 32 and 34 have embellished rods; first-floor verandah to No.30 has concave lozenge motif to balustrade and scrolls to uprights, first-floor verandah to No.34 has scrolls; to No.36 the second-floor windows have tent hoods; to right return a 2-storey feature of porch and verandah above with similar scrolled motifs. Railings across front and to sides of steps have spearheads, with urn finials to stanchions. Some boot scrapers remain.



Listing NGR: SO9547221959

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version