Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE REGENT STREET 630-1/13/775 (South East side) 01/04/82 Nos.11-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: REGENT STREET (South side) Nos.12-16 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: REGENT STREET (South side) Nos.10 AND 11)

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses, now shops and offices, and attached railings. c1810-20 with later additions and alterations including C20 shop fronts. 3 houses to left are stepped forwards. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and brick right end and party-wall stacks; iron balconies and railings. EXTERIOR: mainly 2 storeys, 3 storeys to left, with attics and basements, 18 first-floor windows (3 per house), attics to Nos 12 and 13. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor of Nos 11, 13 and 14 and rustication to ground floors of Nos 15 and 16; continuous first-floor band, surmounted to right end and between houses by 3 Doric pilasters with sunk panels; second-floor band at left, crowning entablature and blocking course. 6/6 sashes where original. Central window to second floor at left is blind. Shop fronts to Nos 12, 13 and 14: bow windows with dentil frieze, those 2 to left with multi-panes. Entrances: steps to C20 glazed door with fanlight with batwing and circle type glazing bars; then C20 glazed door with overlight; then 6-fielded-panel doors where original with elliptically-arched overlights with decorative Gothic and radial glazing bars. Attic dormers. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery and plasterwork; Nos 11 and 16 retain dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail; embellished cornices with acanthus. Otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead area railings to four houses to left, otherwise bars and dogbars with urn finials stamped W Wheeler at Nos 11, 13 and 14. At left are individual balconies to most first- and second-floor windows with scrolled lozenge motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: HS Merrett, architect and surveyor to the

Pittville Estate from 1835-6 lived at No.15 in 1836; in 1850 the same house was occupied by Richard Low, an American and proprietor of the Cheltenham Photographic Institution. Nos 12-16 listed 14.12.83. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29; Blake S: 'Henry Merrett's Plan of Cheltenham': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1983-; Fletcher S: 'Cheltenham's First Photographers': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1985-).



Listing NGR: SO9490122305

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