Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE ST JAMES'S SQUARE
630-1/13/832 (South side)
05/05/72 St George's Terrace Nos.6, 7 and 8
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES'S SQUARE
(South side)
Nos.5-8 (Consecutive)
St George's Terrace)

GV II

3 terraced houses, now offices and house, and attached
railings. c1834-50. Stucco over brick with concealed roof and
brick end and party-wall stacks with iron area railings, and
porch to right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basements, 6 first-floor windows, with
service ranges to rear. Stucco detailing includes rustication
around entrances and voussoirs to heads to ground floor;
first-floor band surmounted by Doric pilasters to either side
of window above entrances; crowning entablature and blocking
course with copings. First floor has 6/6 sashes; ground floor
has 6/6 sash with margin-lights and 8/8 sashes where original.
Basement has 4/8 and 6/6 sashes. Entrances: flights of 6
renewed steps to 6-panel doors at left with fanlights with
radial to 2 to left and 4-panel door with overlight and
margin-lights to right.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery with fluted
architraves and fleurons, otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: arrowhead railings with anthemions to
stanchions; tent porch to No.8 has double scroll motif to
uprights and openwork frieze.
Forms a group with No.5 (qv).
Verey describes these as, 'modest, well-proportioned houses'.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 148).

Listing NGR: SO9457322412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667461

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)