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CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW PITTVILLE LAWN 630-1/6/663 (East side) 12/03/55 Nos.29-37 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses (Nos 31, 35 and 37 now flats) and attached area railings and boundary railings to left. 1827-31. By John Forbes, architect. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and party-wall stacks; wrought- and iron railings, balconies and porch. PLAN: right side hallways and with full-height service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 15 first-floor windows (3 windows each). Centre and end houses break forwards. Stucco detailing includes: to central breakforward are Doric pilasters to ends and 3/4 engaged Ionic columns between windows; second-floor band. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor, all in plain reveals and with sills, those to ground floor, breakforwards are in shallow, elliptically-arched recesses. Entrances to right (also in elliptically-arched recesses): flight of roll-edged steps to 4- and 6-fielded-panel doors (upper panels raised and fielded, lower panels flush, No.33 part glazed) with overlights (the outer ones are elliptically arched) with batwing and circle type glazing bars where original (Nos 29, 31 and 35), some have sidelights. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead area railings with urn finials to stanchions, and to sides of steps. Similar arrowhead railings with bars and dogbars and urn finials to left boundary. Continuous first-floor balconies have double lozenge motif. Scrolled boot scrapers. No.29 has porch to rear with scrolled uprights and openwork frieze. Blind boxes to some windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: sites sold to a consortium of 5 men and houses begun 18.05.1827, to be completed 'according to a plan on the back of this document' (illus. Blake p33) by 24.06.1829, ready for occupation by 1831. Originally known as The Central Carriage Drive, the name Pittville Lawn was first given to the terraces now forming Nos 29-37 (odd), 45-53 (odd) (qv) and 59-67 (odd) (qv), which all have a similar design. Built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42, the general layout being designed by the architect John Forbes.

All the listed buildings along Pittville Lawn form a distinguished architectural group. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 33-34,70; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 151).



Listing NGR: SO9540923014

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