Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER PARADE
630-1/18/534 (West side)
05/05/72 No.3
Imperial House and attached wall and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELLIER PARADE
No.3
Ryalstone (Imperial Nursing Home))

GV II

House, now offices, with attached wall and railings. c1823.
Stucco over brick with concealed roof, stucco end stacks;
wrought-iron window guards and railings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows, with
1-window-range set back to right. First- and second-floor
bands; crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course. 6/6
sashes to ground and first floors, taller to ground floor, 3/3
sashes to second floor, all in plain reveals and with sills.
Central solid porch has quoins to angles, steps to
6-long-panel door with fanlight in plain reveals and with
keystones, frieze, cornice and blocking course. Similar
fenestration to right range with 2 further small inserted
sashes.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery including shutters to
windows and 6-panel doors in fluted architraves with masks;
narrow-open-well staircase c1900 has carved newels; within
porch a renewed door with lozenge frieze and fanlight with
circle glazing bars. Otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first floor, outer windows have balconies
with embellished rods and central scrolled lozenge panel; low
walls with arrowhead railings to right. Rear has 2-storey
verandah with lozenge and rods to uprights and lattice
friezes, first-floor has embellished rods and circle and
lozenge frieze to balustrade. One similar first-floor window
guard. To ground floor are 2 ornate window boxes.
One of a good group of 1820s villas in Montpellier Parade.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 143).

Listing NGR: SO9470921774

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666784

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)