Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW QUEEN'S PARADE 630-1/17/767 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive) 12/03/55 and attached area railings

GV II

Terrace of 9 houses and attached railings. 1839-46. Builder: William Swain. Ashlar over brick with concealed, double-pitch roof and iron window guards, verandahs and railings. Double depth plan with side stairhalls and service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows each; full-height. Left house (No.1) breaks forward and has four 3/4 Corinthian columns through first and second floors; further breakforward at No.6. Crowning architrave, frieze and dentil cornice. Horizontal rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over round-arched openings. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor, those to ground floor mainly 3/6 and 2/2 sashes with radial glazing to heads. Flights of 5 steps (roll-edged where original) to round-arched entrances, 2- and 4-long-fielded-panel doors with side-lights and fanlights, some with radial glazing bars. Left return: 4-window range, mainly blind openings. Basement has 8/8 and 6/6 sashes. Rear retains many 6/6 and 8/8 sashes. INTERIOR: retain original joinery including panelled reveals to windows and shutters; most have dogleg staircase with wreathed handrail and stick balusters; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor window guards to No.1 have anthemion motif, a designed derived from Henry Shaw (see also Nos 1-11 Pittville Lawn (qv)); otherwise verandahs have double-heart-and-anthemion motif to balustrades supplied by Carron Company, the latest examples in Cheltenham, with embellished lozenge to uprights and openwork frieze. Area railings: mainly Carron Company heart-and-anthemion, except those to left have flattened spearheads. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Arthur T Harris, Marshall of the RAF, Chief Bomber Command during the Second World War was born at No.3 in 1892. The end 2 houses of the terrace (No.10, not included) were built as flats c1980s to form a symmetrical design. Radford notes, 'Set up on rising ground at the top of Bayshill Road (the terrace) has a dominant position with a fine view. .. It is close to the .. Montpellier Spa, .. the hub of social life in the 1840s'. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 38,41; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham

Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 11-12,52; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 139-145).



Listing NGR: SO9431221850

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