Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PRESTBURY ROAD 630-1/10/695 (North side) 08/06/83 Nos.6-16 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of 6 shops with flats over. 1830s: No.6 1833-4, Nos 8-16 1839-40; with later C19 and C20 additions and alterations to ground floor shop fronts. Stucco over brick with slate roofs and brick and stucco end and party-wall stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to left otherwise 2 storeys, 17+1 first-floor windows (3 to each house, that to right on curve). Right end curved on plan. Second and right end buildings break forwards. First-floor band. Crowning entablature except to right and left; low parapet and copings throughout. 6/6 sashes where original, all in plain reveals, those to right with sills. Shop fronts, (from left): late C19 frontage with central entrance a part-glazed door with fanlight and carved decoration in the spandrels with pilastered architrave, between 2-light, round-arched windows with fluted, half-columnar mullions with foliate capitals. Two shopfronts c1970s. No.12 has end pilasters, entrance a part-glazed off-centre recessed door, window to right has fluted half-columnar mullions. No.16 has original shop front which follows curve of building, with fluted mullions, end pilaster with acanthus corbels, frieze and cornice, off-centre glazed entrance has ornate panel. Left return: No.6 has a 3-storey bow facing Portland Street with similar arcaded shop-front and a 2-bay extension to left. INTERIOR: No.6: photos dated 1991 show embellished frieze and cornice with anthemion to coving and grape frieze to ceiling; central rose. HISTORICAL NOTE: Originally known as Leamington Place. No.6 was occupied as a chemist's shop by 1839, this row of 6 shops being the only commercial premises allowed on the Pittville Estate. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 73-74).

Listing NGR: SO9540122900

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