Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW GLOUCESTER PLACE 630-1/14/326 (South East side) 14/12/83 Nos.1, 2 AND 3

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Irregular terrace of 3 houses, now house with shop at left and office at right. Numbered right to left, described left to right. 1806-20. Stucco over brick with concealed roofs, tall brick stacks to ends of Nos 2 and 3 (left houses) and iron porches and balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys taller and with basement to right, 8 first-floor windows arranged 3:3:2. Stucco detailing includes first-floor bands to left and right; second-floor band and crowning cornice to right. Mainly 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor at right, all in plain reveals and with sills. Central entrances to 2 left houses, otherwise to right: one C20 door, centre door has 6 flush-panels, door to right has 6 raised-and-fielded panels, all with fanlights with glazing-bars. Further entrance to left a plank door. Blocking courses with copings. INTERIOR: retain original joinery including panelled shutters to windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: porches to 2 houses to left and centre have scrolled lozenge and anthemion motif to uprights and tent roofs, that to right has scrolled heart motif and openwork frieze. First-floor balconies have lattice-motif with central scrolled panel to house at right (No.1), and 3 balconies with rod-circle-and-scroll motif to centre house (No.2). HISTORICAL NOTE: Chatwin notes that window guards at No.2 are similar to those at Nos 103 and 105 London Road (qv) and Nos 4, 6 and 8 Montpellier Spa Road (qv); variations of the design are found on less imposing houses on many of Cheltenham new town's earlier roads. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 46; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 19,24).

Listing NGR: SO9524222471

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