Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE TRAFALGAR STREET 630-1/18/971 (East side) 12/03/55 Nelson Villa, Nelson Lodge, Nelson Cottage, attached walls, railings and piers

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses with attached walls, railings and gate piers throughout. 1805, in 2 stages of build, with balconies c1820. Built for Captain Brissac. Stucco over brick with slate roof, off-centre right stucco party-wall stack and wrought-iron balconies and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 8 first-floor windows (3:2:3). Central cottage breaks forward. 2nd, 4th and 7th openings are blind, otherwise 6-pane French windows with divided overlights and margin-lights throughout. Windows have louvred shutters and shutter hinges, except to Nelson Lodge. Crowning cornice and low parapet with copings. Outer cottages have central entrances, otherwise to left, 6-fielded-panel doors with lower flush panels and narrow overlights. INTERIOR: retain original joinery and plasterwork including narrow-open-well staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail to Nelson Cottage; cornices to outer houses have Greek key motif. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous balcony on first floor with 'Classical filigree of iron work', curved quarterings in square motif; lattice uprights to right end at ground floor. Nelson Cottage has 2 scrolled bootscrapers. Wall at left to end pier, front low walls surmounted by railings, gatepiers and scroll motif to gate. To centre wall abuts right house to scrolled lozenge motif railings which continues across front to piers, square on plan with pyramidal cap. Wall to right end for approx 5m and railings across front have arrowhead bars and dogbars with urn finials to stanchions; gate piers (renewed) and gate with central panel of embellished rods. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of a modest and very early C19 speculation, the cottages having been designed with front gardens. (Country Life 30 August 1946; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 144; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 26).

Listing NGR: SO9476821906

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  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)