Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER PARADE 630-1/18/533 (West side) 12/03/55 No.1 Glensanda

GV II

House, now offices. c1823 with later alterations. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, end stucco stacks; iron window guards. Central hallway, double depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows. Facade articulated by full-height Doric pilasters to ends and between windows with deep elliptically-arched frieze forming recesses above windows; continuous first- and second-floor bands. First floor has 6/6 sashes; second floor has 3/3 sashes; ground floor has rectangular bay at right and 1/1 sashes. Basement has 6/6 sashes where original. Central entrance with Doric porch with frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. Within a 4-panel door and fanlight with decorative batwing and circle type glazing bars. Crowning frieze and cornice. Similar stucco decoration to right return has two 6-pane French windows and divided overlight with margin-lights; to second floor are similar casements with glazing bars and margin-lights. To rear facade a full-height bow with tripartite 1/1 sashes and 3/3 sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: right facade has 2 first-floor window-guards with concentric circles. Occupies a corner site with Montpellier Drive and Montpellier Spa Road. One of a good group of 1820s villas in Montpellier Parade, the popular neo-Classical device of using full-height arched bays is used here to good effect. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 143).

Listing NGR: SO9468121731

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas