Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521NE LONDON ROAD 630-1/20/482 (South West side) 12/03/55 Nos.43, 45 AND 47 Little Keynshambury, Keynshambury House, Keynsham Priors and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) Nos.45 AND 47 Keynshambury House and Keynsham House)

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Pair of terraced houses, now 3 dwellings and attached railings. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1820-30 with later additions and alterations including service range at left. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, end stucco stacks and iron balcony and railings. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with basement, 5 first-floor windows (2:3), with one-and-a-half-storey entrance bay to left and single-storey, 2-bay range to right and with full-height service range to rear of main range at right. Main range: end bays break forward. Stucco detailing includes ground-floor rustication drawn into voussoirs over entrances; second- and third-floor bands; tooled architraves to first- and second-floor windows with cornice on consoles to first floor and with acanthus leaves to 2nd floor. 6/6 sashes where original in plain reveals and with sills, and 2/2 sash to first floor. Right entrance (No.45) has 6-fielded-panel double doors between engaged fluted Doric half-columns and wide cambered-arched fanlight with decorative radial glazing. Original entrance at left (No.47) now infilled and with sash; otherwise entrance a C20 door in extension. Range to right (No.43) has end entrance a panelled door with overlight and 1/1 sash, both with tooled architraves and cornices on console brackets; crowning cornice and low parapet. Right return of main range has 4 first-floor windows, mainly blind openings. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: No.45 has stick balusters and embellished balustrade to sides of steps; between houses a 2m range of flattened spearhead railings. First-floor continuous balcony has embellished rods and lattice frieze. No.47 has similar first-floor balcony to rear. HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Merrett's Map of 1834 as Keynsham

Place. Forms a group with Boundary Pier to No.43 (qv) and Gatepiers to No.47 (qv). (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9550921821

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