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CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW LYPIATT ROAD 630-1/17/499 (West side) 05/05/72 Nos.1-17 (consec) Lypiatt Terrace and balustrades; area railings to Nos.3 and 6

GV II*

Terrace of 17 houses with attached balustrades throughout and area railings to Nos 3 and 6. c1847. Architect, Samuel W Daukes; builder, Richard Keitley. Ashlar over brick with slate roof and tall ashlar and stucco party-wall stacks with cornices; iron basement railings and rear balcony. Italianate style. Double-depth plan with rear service wings. EXTERIOR: a symmetrical design with central 3-storey, 10 first-floor window range, flanked by projecting 2-storey and attic to gable, 2 first-floor window ranges, then 2-storey with attics, 7-window ranges and outer 4-storey, single-wide-bay, projecting, hipped roof towers; and with 2-storey range to left end; basements throughout. Ashlar detailing includes quoins to breakforwards. Windows: inner ranges have mainly 2/2 round-arched sashes throughout, with tooled round-arched heads on corbels; end towers have 3-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes to ground and first floors with tooled round-arched heads on outer corbels and chamfered mullions, second floor has central 1/1 sash in tooled surround and with feet and continuous tooled sill band, third floor has three 2/2 round-arched sashes with pilasters between and tooled arches with keystones on continuous tooled sill band and with paired end pilasters. Gabled breakforwards to either side of central range have 3-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes to ground floor with tooled round-arched heads on outer corbels and chamfered mullions and sill; first floor has pair of 2/2 round-arched sashes in tooled surrounds and with cornices on consoles; attic to gable has Venetian window with 1/1 sashes (that to centre round-arched) and tooled head on consoles on continuous tooled sill. Gabled breakforwards between 2-storey and attic ranges have 2-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes with chamfered mullion and sill and tooled arch on outer corbels to head; first-floor band and band above; first floor has 1/1 round-arched sash in tooled architrave and with cornice on consoles which interrupts second-floor band; attic to gable has 2-light 1/1 sashes with tooled surrounds and chamfered mullion and sill. Roof dormers have 3/3 sashes and open pedimented gables. Entrances to ends and centres of long ranges: flights of steps, roll-edged where

original to 4-panel outer double doors with fanlights with tooled arches to heads on corbels and recessed 4-panel, part-glazed doors with side-lights and fanlight. Left end has entrance to angle with 2-storey range. Wide eaves on brackets. Basement has some 6/6 sashes. Right return has ground-floor bow with horizontal rustication and 2/2 sashes, curved on section. Rear has 6/6 sashes with margin-lights. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including shutters to some windows; photographs dated 1993 show ground floor has embellished cornices with naturalistic ornament and marble fireplace with corbels, acanthus modillion cornice to entrance hall, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron details include area railings to Nos 3 and 6 with X-motif; to left return a first-floor balcony with Gothic arches. Ashlar features: first-floor continuous balustrade to ranges on brackets has pierced circle motif; similar balconies to breakforwards. Flights of steps have stone balustrades with pierced quatrefoils where original. Notable in the development of the English terrace as signifying a departure from the Neo-Classical into the informal Italianate, giving the appearance of a series of villas. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 143; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 71).



Listing NGR: SO9419621620

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