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CHELTENHAM

SO9523SE PRESTBURY ROAD 630-1/7/705 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.46 AND 48 with attached wall and pier and area railings to No.48 (Formerly Listed as: PRESTBURY ROAD (North side) Nos.34-60 (Even))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas with attached wall, pier and area railings. 1839-40. By Abraham Tyler, builder who completed many houses in Pittville. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof (mock slates to right) and renewed brick party-wall stacks; iron verandahs, window boxes and area railings. Double depth plan with outer side hallways and service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band surmounted by 3 Doric pilasters between central windows. 6/6 sashes where original, all in plain reveals and with sills. Venetian shutters and S-latches to first floor. End entrances, flights of roll-edged steps to 4-panel doors, the upper panels raised and fielded, lower panels flush, with sidelights and divided overlights. Roof has central raised and coped divide with kneeler. Returns have 3 blind first-floor openings. INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including panelled shutters to ground-floor windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: verandahs have x-and-circle motif to uprights with openwork frieze, area railings to right have X-motif balustrade. Window boxes to ground floor at left have X-motif. Coped wall approx 2m high adjoins at right, ramped down to pier. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1835-42, the general layout being designed by the architect John Forbes. Nos 34-60 Prestbury Road (qqv) form a group of semi-detached villas and are shown as laid out on Merrett's Map of 1834. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 23).



Listing NGR: SO9559823037

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