Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER TERRACE 630-1/18/559 (South side) 12/03/55 Nos.87-93 (Odd) and attached railings to left return of No.93 (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER TERRACE Nos.83-93 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and attached railings to left return of No.93, some now flats. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1820-34. Ashlar over brick to right with stucco to left and slate roof, brick and stucco party-wall stacks, iron porch to No.87 and balcony divider (between Nos 89 and 91). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 12 first-floor windows (3 per house) with single-storey entrance bay set back at left. Windows arranged 1:4:2:4:1 with ends and centre set back slightly. First- and second-floor bands. Crowning entablature. Mainly 6/6 and 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes to ground and first floors; 3/3 and 6/6 sashes to second floor; basement has 8/8 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills. Paired central entrances and end entrances: 2 roll-edged steps to 6-fielded-panel doors (with circles to lower panels), some part glazed; 2 to centre have batwing and circle glazing bars; that to left in set back solid porch with Doric pilasters, frieze, cornice and blocking course, those to centre in shared Doric porch with 3 pairs of columns and plain entablature with blocking course. Rear retains several 6/6 and 3/3 sashes. No.91 has full-height range to rear and prominent inscription to front, ground floor facade: Edward Adrian Wilson/ Arctic explorer/ born here 1872/ died with Scott 1912. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: porch has lozenge and scroll motifs and frieze; divider has central scrolled circle. Area railings to left return have bobbin heads and dog-bars. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.91 was the birthplace in 1872 of Edward Wilson, Antarctic explorer (statue on Promenade (qv)).

Listing NGR: SO9471221644

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings