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SO9421SW
630-1/22/1035

CHELTENHAM
PAINSWICK ROAD (East side)
Nos.44 and 46 Benella (No.46) and attached railings

GV
II

Pair of semi-detached villas and attached railings. c1830-50. Stucco over brick with slate roof and brick end stacks; iron railings.

EXTERIOR: two storeys on basement, four first-floor windows. The outer bays are wider, gabled and break forwards. Stucco detailing includes quoins to angles and to raised party-wall; ground-floor band, moulded first-floor band surmounted to centre by balustrade with concentric circle motif; windows have roll-moulded architraves ending in lower scroll. First floor has outer pairs of 1/1 round-arched horned sashes with similar single windows between; ground floor has similar triple windows. Flights of steps to central entrances with three-panel doors and fanlights, tooled arches over on acanthus corbels and with keystones. Low coped walls to either side of steps. Basements have three 1/1 sashes with chamfered mullions between.

INTERIOR: to No.46 has dogleg staircase with lion's paw to newel. Original joinery includes four-panel doors and dividing doors. Original plasterwork including moulded cornices. No.44 noted as retaining similar interior features.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead railings to dividing boundary.

HISTORICAL NOTE: No.46 has been know as Benella since it was built.

Forms a pair with Nos 48 and 50 (qv); a similar design to Nos 7 and 8 Montpellier Grove (qv).

Listing NGR: SO9440521215

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667051

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]