Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW PRIORY STREET
630-1/14/720 (North side)
05/05/72 Nos.10-16 (Even)
and attached area railings to No.10
and with forecourt railings to No.12

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and attached railings. c1820-50. Stucco
over brick with concealed roof and stucco party-wall stacks
with iron railings. Double depth plan with side halls; No.10
has full-height service range at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 9 first-floor windows
arranged 3:2:2:2. Stucco detailing includes pilasters through
ground and first floors to ends and party-walls, 3 to left
have fielded panel and ornate capitals with anthemion (missing
to left end), otherwise Tuscan pilasters; crowning frieze with
wreaths above capitals to left end and centre, cornice and
blocking course with central scroll and panel cresting to each
house; tooled first-floor sill band; tooled architraves and
cornices on console brackets to ground-floor windows, 2 to
left have frieze with fleurons, then frieze with wreaths and 2
with panelled friezes. First floor has blind opening, then
four 6/6 and four 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes; ground floor has
pair of 6/6 sashes (each in its own architrave), then a 6/6
sash with margin-lights in architrave with wreaths to frieze
and scroll and panel cresting, sill on feet; two 2/2
horizontal-pane sashes with margin-lights and sills on feet.
All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: one to
left, otherwise to right, steps to 3- and 4-panel doors, some
part-glazed (upper panels raised and fielded, lower panels
flush) and with overlights with margin-lights, that to right
end has sidelights, 2 to right in round-arched recesses.
Basements: 3/3 sashes and some flush-panelled doors.
INTERIOR: original features including plasterwork survives,
cornices with fleurons, some original joinery including
4-panel doors, staircases with stick balusters and carved
tread ends and handrail ending with lion's paw where original,
otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead forecourt railings and gates
with anthemions to stanchions, except to left where area
balustrade has stylized heart motif.

Listing NGR: SO9546622037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667254

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990