Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SW PARK PLACE
630-1/22/627 (East side)
05/05/72 Nos.12 AND 14
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK PLACE
(East side)
Nos.4-14 (Even))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas and attached railings. c1820-32.
Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof, central ridge stucco
stack; cast-and wrought-iron porches, balconies and railings.
Double depth plan with side stairways and ranges to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement with attics, 4 first-floor
windows with 2-storey, single-bay entrance ranges set back to
sides. Stucco detailing includes plinth, pilasters with sunk
panels through ground and first floors to ends and centre of
main range which interrupts tooled first-floor band and
frieze, long panel over 2 first-floor windows to main range of
each house. 6/6 sashes throughout, with 6/6 and 8/8 sashes to
basement, all in plain reveals and with sills. Attic roof
dormers have 2/2 sashes and round-arched casement windows. End
entrances, flights of roll-edged steps to 6-fielded-panel
doors with fanlight with Gothic glazing bars at left and
overlight with margin-lights and lozenge motif at right. Main
range has wide eaves. Entrance ranges have low parapets with
copings. Rear: No.12 has 2-storey bow.
INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including
panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have scrolled lozenge
motif. Ground floor has individual balconies with web motif.
Porches have lozenge scrolls to uprights and openwork friezes.
Arrowhead railings to sides of steps with bars and dogbars and
urn finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Park Place was developed by 1832.
Forms a group with Nos 4 and 6 (qv) and abuts Nos 8 and 10
(qv).

Listing NGR: SO9435821426

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667077

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback