Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE ORMOND PLACE 630-1/13/604 (South West side) 15/03/95 No.1 Madame Wright's (Formerly Listed as: ORMOND STREET Madame Wright's)

GV II

Includes: Ormond Terrace No.1 REGENT STREET. House, now shop. c1820-34 (shown as built on Merrett's Map of 1834) with later additions and alterations including raising of the upper part to right and shop front of 1924-5. Architects for alterations in 1924 were Healing and Overbury of Cheltenham with shop front by Frederick Sage and Company of London for Emily Cooper (nee Wright). Stucco over brick with glazed shop front with metal glazing bars and coloured marble surround; concealed roof with brick ridge stack to left part and stuccoed stack to right end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 8 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes where original, with 1/1 lugged sashes; the left windows are blind. Crowning frieze and cornice. Shop front: 5 bays divided by marble pilasters, on plinth and with frieze and cornice. Central entrance, shop front has rounded glass brought in to double, glazed doors; otherwise each section has a projecting bay with curved glass, and frieze. Left return has 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes; first-floor band; entrance to left a C20 door with overlight. INTERIOR: to left part a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail. The shop part has oak panelling and staircase with bulbous balusters and carved newel; chimneypiece to left. HISTORICAL NOTE: the original house faced Ormond Terrace, Regent Street; it had 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows and was 3 windows deep with a service wing, which was probably of 2 storeys, and raised to full height when the house was purchased for Madame Wright's shop in 1924. The designers of the shop front, Sage of London, had an international clientele and Mrs Cooper (the proprietress) had seen their work in Paris. The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic in 1925 wrote, 'the new Shop .. adds greatly to the attractions of Cheltenham'. It 'is one of the finest and most modern in the West of England'. Occupies an important corner site visually linking the

Promenade to Regent Street. The return forms a group with Nos 2, 3 and 4 Ormond Terrace (qv) and Nos 5-8 (consec) Ormond Terrace (qv), Regent Street. This is a rare surviving example of a fine 1920s shop front. (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, 18 October 1924; Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, 6 June 1925).



Listing NGR: SO9482222283

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