Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW ALBERT PLACE 630-1/10/117 (East side) 05/05/72 Nos.8-30 (Even) and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: ALBERT PLACE (East side) Nos.2-30 (Even))

GV II

Irregular terrace of 12 houses and attached railings. Laid out c1827 for Joseph Hughes. Ashlar and stucco, over brick with slate and mock-slate roofs; brick and stucco party-wall stacks. Double depth plan with transverse dogleg staircase, No.18 has full-height service range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basements, all except Nos 18-24 have attics to rear, 35-first-floor window range (2 to No.28, otherwise 3 per house). 6/6 sashes throughout (except Nos 14 and 30 have 2 x 1/1 sashes to ground floor), all in plain reveals and with sills; Nos 10 and 22 have some blind openings; No.8 has blind boxes; No.28 has floating cornice to ground floor. Entrances to left: flights of steps (mainly roll-edged) to mainly 6-panel doors mainly with fanlights with batwing-and-circle type glazing-bars where original, in round-arched reveals, except No.28 has overlight; No.18 has Ionic pilastered surround and broken pediment. Detailing includes: 3 continuous incised first-floor bands except to Nos 6 and 28; end pilasters with decorative capitals; continuous frieze and cornice, blocking course; No.30 has balustrade surmounted by urns. Rear has 8/8, 6/6 and 3/6 sashes where original; Nos 12, 20 and 26 have tall staircase window with margin-lights. Rear retains 8/8, 6/6 and 3/6 sashes where original. INTERIOR: original joinery includes panelled shutters to some windows, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of steps have bars and dog-bars, arrow- and spearheaded; some anthemion finials. Formerly the north side of Portland Square. Abuts and forms a group with Nos 2, 4, and 6, Albert Place (qqv) and Nos 35 and 37 Prestbury Road (qv). (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 46; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 93-8).



Listing NGR: SO9542722830

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