Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW BERKELEY PLACE 630-1/14/202 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.1-9 (Odd) with attached railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: BERKELEY ROAD (North side) Nos.1-9 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses, some now flats, with attached railings and gates. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1810-20, on 1820 Post Office map, but not on Mitchell's Map of 1810; with later additions and alterations (including extensions to service wings at rear). Brick with ashlar facade and slate double-pitch roof with stucco party-wall stacks, wrought- and iron verandahs, window guards, railings and gates. PLAN: double-depth plan with full-height service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with basement, 15 first-floor window range (3 per house). Ends break forward slightly. Rusticated ground floor drawn into voussoirs over entrances and windows, centre house has vermiculated rustication; floor bands; frieze, cornice and blocking course. First floor: tall 6/6 sashes where original otherwise 6-pane French windows with divided overlights, those to No. 1 with margin-lights; and 1/1 sashes (all in original openings). Second floor: 6/6 sashes with sills throughout. Third floor: 3/3 sashes with sills throughout. Ground floor: 2/2 and 1/1 sashes. Basement has mainly 8/8 sashes. All windows in plain reveals. Entrances to right, 4- and 6-panel doors with fanlights, where original having batwing-and-circle motif glazing bars (Nos 1 and 3); entrance to No.9 to left return: solid porch has paired Ionic columns, 6-fielded-panel door between pilaster strips, with frieze and overlight with decorative glazing bars, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and blocking course. Inscribed 'BERKELEY PLACE' to second-floor band at right. Left return, main range has 4 first-floor windows, mainly blind openings with sills, two C20 windows. Right return plain. Rear has mainly 6/6 sashes where original. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor verandah to each house has rod-and-concentric-circle motif to balustrade and scroll motif to uprights, openwork frieze and tent roofs. Centre house has

individual window guards to third-floor windows. Some ground-floor window boxes. Spearhead railings to sides of entrances and to area with gates to basements, stanchions have urn finials. Entrance porch to No.9 surmounted by balustrade with concentric circle motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Berkeley family were prominent landowners and powerful families in Cheltenham, providing the Liberal MP for 60 years during the C19. Originally the houses had formal gardens in front, these now form a public space. This is a substantial terrace retaining much of its original appearance, well set back from London Road, one of the main routes into Cheltenham, and forms an architectural unit with Nos 11 and 15-21 (odd), Berkeley Place (qv). (Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 34-39; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 72).



Listing NGR: SO9534922077

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