Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW ALBION STREET 630-1/14/128 (North side) 05/05/72 Nos.70-80 (Even) and attached railings to No.74 with wall, piers and railings to No.80

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses and attached forecourt railings to No.74 and with wall, piers and railings to No.80. c1820-50. Ashlar facades with concealed roofs; cast- and wrought-iron railings, gate and balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basements, 18 first-floor windows (3 per house) and 2-storey porch set back to right return. Rustication to ground floor, drawn into voussoirs over openings, with continuous first-floor sill band. Cornices to Nos 74 to 80, otherwise missing. Mainly 6/6 sashes (where original), some 1/1 sashes; taller to ground floor. Basements have 3/3 and 6/6 sashes. All in plain reveals, sills to ground and second floors. Flights of steps to entrances (at left and right): 3- and 6-fielded-panel doors with lattice frieze and fanlights, some with decorative glazing; and similar to No.80 in porch to right return. Right return has blind openings. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: flattened lancet railings with urn finials to sides of steps, and with forecourt railings to No.74; No.80 has attached wall with octagonal piers with shaped capping and finials, gate with fleurs-de-lys bars and dog-bars and flattened lancet railings. Individual first-floor balconies to Nos 70, 76 and 78: rod with flower motif and lattice frieze; window guards to ground floor No.78; No.74 retains its boot scraper.



Listing NGR: SO9524222447

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