Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521NE LONDON ROAD 630-1/20/490 (South side) 14/12/83 Nos.81-89 (Odd) and attached area railings to Nos.81, 83, 87 and 89

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses, now flats, and attached railings to Nos 81, 83, 97 and 89. c1820-50. Stucco over brick, roughcast to No.81, with slate roofs, stucco party-wall stacks; wrought- and iron porches, railings, and balcony and window guards (with lead enrichments). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basements, 10 first-floor windows (2 per house). Stucco detailing includes ground-floor rustication and first-floor band to No.81; cornice to Nos 83, 87 and 89; Nos 83 and 89 have parapet ramped up at ends with copings, otherwise low parapet with copings. 6/6 sashes where original, taller to first floor; 3/3 sashes to second floor; all in plain reveals and with sills. 2 pairs of entrances and at right: 6-panel doors, some part-glazed, that to No.81 with porch with round-arched openings to front and sides and Doric pillars. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearheaded area railings with urn finials to stanchions; first-floor window guards to Nos 83, 85 and 89 have embellished rods with lattice frieze and central scrolled panel; window box to No.85 has scroll motif; balcony to No.81 has a 'particularly fine' example of rod-and-concentric circle motif with central roundel. Porches except to right (No.81) have scroll and lozenge motif, tent roofs remain to left pair. Railings to No.85 have been renewed. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 23,27).



Listing NGR: SO9566721651

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