Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE ST GEORGE'S ROAD 630-1/13/817 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.13-27 AND 27A (Odd) Trident House (No.27A), and attached railings to Nos.15-21 and 27 (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S ROAD (North side) Nos.13-27 (Odd) and Fauconburg Lodge (No.104 St George's Place))

GV II*

Terrace of 9 houses. c1837-40. Architect probably Robert Morris. Stucco over brick with slate roof and brick and stucco party-wall stacks; wrought-iron balconies and railings. Double-depth plan with side hallways and 3-storey service wings to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 27 first-floor windows (3 per house). End houses project slightly and have round-arched windows on ground floor and square headed on 1st floor, the opposite way round to rest of terrace with round-arched windows to first floor with archivolts and impost mouldings. Stucco detailing includes: horizontal rustication to ground floor; 3/4 engaged Corinthian columns between each window and pilasters to end houses, surmounted by projecting dentil entablature; attic storey has crowning frieze and cornice with low parapet. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes where original, some with radial glazing to heads; second floor has 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills; blind boxes to several windows (Nos 19, 21, 23 and 27). Entrances: at right sides and to returns, flights of roll-edged steps to panelled doors with sidelights and overlights, some with ornate radial glazing bars. Returns (alike) have 3 first-floor windows. Central entrances with flights of roll-edged steps to 4-panel, part-glazed doors and double doors with decorative overlights, within surrounds with channelled pilasters and frieze with triglyphs and metopes, that to right has Doric columns in antis, to first and second floors the pilasters continue and have sunk panels, interrupted by continuous cornices over ground, first and second floors. 6/6 and 3/6 sash to centre, otherwise blind openings, those to ground floor are round-arched; ground and first-floor windows in tooled architraves. Rear: retains many 6/6, 8/8 and 3/3 sashes.

INTERIOR: retain original joinery and plasterwork including dogleg staircases with wreathed handrails and embellished rods; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ground floor has individual balconies. First floor has continuous balconies. Mainly arrowhead area railings. Stick balusters to sides of steps with wreathed handrails. Rear: No.27 has 2 individual balconies with interlaced circles and embellished rods. HISTORICAL NOTE: the land for this development was sold in 1837 for »50,000 to a joint stock company, the Bayshill Estate Company, following the death of Revd Richard Skillicorne (1834). The Bayshill Estate included Bayshill Road (qv) and Parabola Road (qv). The terrace bears a similarity to a design carried out in 1825 for Robert Morris by JB Papworth, differing in the omission of one storey and half-round arches over the first-floor windows. Radford observes, 'The ends of the terrace are carefully detailed which is unusual for Cheltenham terraces'. Trident House was formerly known as Fauconberg Lodge. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 11; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 122-131).



Listing NGR: SO9456222283

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