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CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW SUFFOLK SQUARE 630-1/17/879 (South side) 01/03/55 Montpellier House (east part) (Formerly Listed as: SUFFOLK SQUARE Roderic House)

GV II

Also known as: Suffolk Mews SUFFOLK SQUARE. House, now flats. 1832, with later additions and alterations. Architect, Edward Jenkins. Ashlar over brick with concealed roof. Double depth plan with central hallway and range at right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 first-floor windows arranged 1:2:1:2:1; with 2-storey-on-basement, 7-first-floor window range to right. Main range: end and centre breakforwards. Ashlar detailing includes pilasters with egg-and-dart caps to end breakforwards; tooled architraves to widows, those to ends at ground floor have pediments on console brackets, otherwise ground floor windows have frieze and cornice; first floor widows have eared architraves, those to centre and outer bays have frieze and cornice, that to centre on console brackets. 6/6 sashes, that to centre, first floor a 6/6 between 2/2 sash, in plain reveals and with sills. Basement has 6/6 sashes. Central entrance has flight of roll-edged steps to pedimented Doric portico with 2 pairs of fluted columns and entablature with triglyphs and metopes. Within a 6-panel double, part-glazed doors between sidelights and overlight with margin-lights. Range to right has end Doric pilasters through 2 floors and to next two windows, crowning entablature; pilaster strips to second floor, crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course. All windows in tooled surrounds, that to first floor at centre has cornice on consoles, otherwise eared architraves to first floor. Central window is tripartite, with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes to first floor and 3/3 between 1/1 sashes to ground floor; otherwise 6/6 sashes. Rear has 4 tripartite windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Left return has 3 first-floor windows: either blind openings or replacement 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: retains original joinery including panelled shutters to windows; open-well staircase with lozenge and oval iron balustrade and wreathed handrail; otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Suffolk Square occupies land bought by the Earl of Suffolk from the de la Bere's, on which he built Suffolk House for his own residence, his daughter later sold

much of the land, on which Suffolk Square now stands to developer James Fisher. The Square is shown as planned but not complete on the Post Office Map of 1820. Abuts Montpellier House (west part) to right. Part of a very distinguished group of buildings in Suffolk Square. (Blake S: Notes).



Listing NGR: SO9446021495

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)