Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW CAMBRAY PLACE 630-1/14/221 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.6-11 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses (now houses, flats and commercial buildings) with attached railings. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1810-30: most of the terrace shown on the Post Office Map of 1820 (with a possible gap to east, Nos 6 and 7), all shown on Merrett's 1834 map. Railings supplied by W Wheeler; balustrades manufactured by Carron Company. Brick with stucco facades and slate roof; iron verandahs (except to No.11) and forecourt railings throughout. Double depth plan with service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 18 first-floor windows (3 per house). Stucco detailing includes: rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over openings; floor bands; frieze, cornice and blocking course. Basement, first and second floors have 6/6 sashes, taller to first floor; 1/1 replacement sashes to ground floor; all in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances (3 to left, 3 to right): flights of steps to 5- and 6-panel doors between pilaster strips and side-lights with wide fanlights with batwing-and-circle glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected, but some shutters visible. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor verandahs to all except No.11 have heart-and-anthemion motif to balustrades, probably supplied by W Wheeler who supplied the railings to Nos 6-9 (name on urn finials); area railings throughout have stick balusters and lattice panels, some reset; spearhead railings to sides of steps and between plots, some with anthemion finials to street. Ground-floor window boxes to No.10 have scroll motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: Cambray Place was a wide avenue leading to Cambray House, at one time rented to the Duke of Wellington but since demolished and replaced by a mid-C20 block of flats. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1992-: 145; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 37; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 40-48; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).



Listing NGR: SO9501622241

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