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

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