Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SE GREAT NORWOOD STREET 630-1/23/344 (West side) 12/03/55 Nos.1-11, 11A, 15 AND 17 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREAT NORWOOD STREET (West side) Nos.1-39 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 9 houses and attached railings and area railings to Nos 15 and 17. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations including C19 ground-floor shop-front to Nos 1, 7 and 11, and C20 shop fronts to Nos 3, 5 and 9. Stucco over brick with concealed roofs, brick party-wall stacks, and wrought- and iron window guards and balcony. Double depth plan with right side hallways. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, Nos 15 and 17 on basements and with attic to No.31, 18 first-floor windows, 2 per house. Stucco detailing includes; continuous first- and second-floor bands, frieze, cornice and blocking course. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor, in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances to right, mainly 5-panel doors (where original), with overlights, Nos 15 and 17 with decorative glazing bars and pediments on corbels. Shop fronts: No.1 has off-centre glazed entrance between plate-glass windows with slender pilasters, with frieze and cornice; No.11 has turned pilasters and 2-pane front with frieze and cornice, part-glazed door with overlight set back to right. Right return has 3 first-floor windows; 6/6 sashes, second floor has 1 blind window. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: No.3 has continuous first-floor balcony with concentric-rod-and-circle motif; first-floor window guards to Nos 7, 9, 15 and 17 have web motif pattern, and to Nos 11 and 11A have Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif. Area railings to Nos 15 and 17 have concave scrolled lozenge motif. Between houses a short run of arrowhead railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.1 recorded as a draper's shop in 1892. No.3 was registered as T James, butcher in 1892. No.11 was a tailor's shop in 1892. Shown as laid out and some built on Merrett's Map of 1834. Part of a fine street of mostly 1830s and 1840s terrace houses.

(Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 27,34-5; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9452721453

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