Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SE FAIRVIEW ROAD 630-1/15/323 (South West side) 05/05/72 Nos.135-145 (Odd) and attached railings to No.145

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses and attached railings to No.145. Numbered right to left. c1806-1835, with later additions and alterations. Brick with stucco facades and slate roofs with stucco party-wall stacks with cornices to Nos 135, 139, 141, 143 and 145; iron railings and gates. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with basement to No. 145, 12 first-floor windows (2 per house). Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor where original; voussoirs over ground-floor openings; moulded first-floor band; full-height Doric pilasters to ends of No.139, to right end of No.135, and to left end of Nos 141, 143 and 145; and shorter Doric pilasters mainly on corbels through first floor to left end of Nos 135, 137 and to right end of Nos 141, 143 and 145; frieze, cornice remains to No.141, and blocking course with copings (except to No.141). Windows: 8/8 sashes where original, those to ground floor (except to No.137) have cambered arches. No.141 has C20 bay (in former entrance), with tent roof over. Entrances: to No.135 at left, to No.137 within arch at left, otherwise at right; No.139 has 4-panel door, otherwise C20 doors with fanlights, in cambered-arched surrounds. Nos 141, 143 and 145 have further right entrances with overlights to passages; No.137 has tall, wide elliptically-arched opening to left with tooled arch. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead area railings with stanchions to No.145. HISTORICAL NOTE: Fairview Road was developed from c1806; it occupies part of the open fields 'inclosed' by Act of Parliament in 1806 to enable their development as building land. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 45).



Listing NGR: SO9552022398

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