Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW MONTPELLIER STREET
630-1/17/546 (East side)
05/05/72 Rotunda Buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELLIER STREET
(East side)
Regency House)

GV II

Shops with offices over. c1820-34 with later additions and
alterations, including later C19 bow and shop fronts. Stucco
over brick with hipped slate roof and stacks to right.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows arranged 3:1,
including full height bow which breaks forwards to left.
Stucco detailing includes pilasters with horizontal
rustication to either side of bow through ground and first
floors; windows have tooled architraves, that to second floor
at right with corbelled feet; moulded second-floor sill band;
crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course and copings.
6/6 sashes where original. First floor, central window to bow
has floating segmental pediment. Entrance at right angle a
double part-glazed door with overlight in round-arched
surround with keystone which 'supports' bowed lower part of
flying upper storey; further entrance to later C19 glazed
shop-front curved on plan, with slender pilasters in bow, a
central part-glazed door with dentil frieze and overlight.
Further 6/6 sashes to left and right returns; left return has
irregular fenestration with 6/6 sashes to upper stage, ground
floor has shop front to left with plate-glass windows between
slender mullions and carved decoration to the spandrels,
canted into part-glazed door with lower panel, dentil frieze
and swan-neck pediment and overlight.
Right return has 3 first-floor windows and to ground floor a
shop front with tripartite window with ashlar mullions and
tooled architrave, then a shop front with slender modillions
and caps, and glazing canted into part-glazed door with dentil
frieze.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Merrett's Map of 1834, but
apparently without bow.
Forms a group with Nos 2-8 (even) Montpellier Street (qv).
(Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9436921798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666984

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)