Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SE SUFFOLK ROAD
630-1/23/863 (North side)
Nos.3, 5 AND 7

GV II

3 houses, now houses and shops. c1840 with later additions and
alterations. Stucco over brick with artificial slate roofs and
iron brackets.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows at left, with 2
storeys 2 + 3 first-floor windows. Stepped back at left and
right. At left part a first-floor sill band. First floor has
6/6 sashes where original, second floor has 3/6 sashes, all in
plain reveals and with sills. Crowning blocking courses and
copings. Ground floor: central entrance to left house:
6-raised and fielded-panel door, the lower panels flush;
overlight with decorative glazing bars within porch with
paired pilasters and entablature. 6/6 sash to right of door,
otherwise a C20 window. Centre house has wood-mullioned shop
window and C20 door with further entrance at right a 3-panel
door in round-arched reveals with blind fanlight. To right
house a plate glass-window and glazed door. At right a C20
garage door. Left return: 2 first-floor windows. Right bay
blind, otherwise 6/6 sashes in plain reveals. First- and
second-floor bands. Ground floor has blind opening in taller
and wider round-arched recess.
Left return has 2 first-floor windows. The right bay is blind
with ground-floor blind opening in taller and wider
round-arched recess; otherwise 6/6 and 3/6 sashes in plain
reveals and with sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2 houses at right have tent-roofed
canopies on scrolled brackets.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Suffolk Road is shown on Merrett's 1834 Map
as Commercial Street. An externally little-altered group which
relates to a group of similar buildings.
(Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9463721463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667534

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)