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LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6

LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6, 1 TO 17, LYPIATT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245263
Date first listed:: 04-May-1972
List Entry Name:: LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6
Statutory Address:: LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6, 1 TO 17, LYPIATT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245263
Date first listed:: 04-May-1972
List Entry Name:: LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6
Statutory Address 1:: LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6, 1 TO 17, LYPIATT ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LYPIATT TERRACE AND BALUSTRADES; AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 3 AND 6, 1 TO 17, LYPIATT ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94228 21677

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW LYPIATT ROAD 630-1/17/499 (West side) 05/05/72 Nos.1-17 (consec) Lypiatt Terrace and balustrades; area railings to Nos.3 and 6

GV II*

Terrace of 17 houses with attached balustrades throughout and area railings to Nos 3 and 6. c1847. Architect, Samuel W Daukes; builder, Richard Keitley. Ashlar over brick with slate roof and tall ashlar and stucco party-wall stacks with cornices; iron basement railings and rear balcony. Italianate style. Double-depth plan with rear service wings. EXTERIOR: a symmetrical design with central 3-storey, 10 first-floor window range, flanked by projecting 2-storey and attic to gable, 2 first-floor window ranges, then 2-storey with attics, 7-window ranges and outer 4-storey, single-wide-bay, projecting, hipped roof towers; and with 2-storey range to left end; basements throughout. Ashlar detailing includes quoins to breakforwards. Windows: inner ranges have mainly 2/2 round-arched sashes throughout, with tooled round-arched heads on corbels; end towers have 3-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes to ground and first floors with tooled round-arched heads on outer corbels and chamfered mullions, second floor has central 1/1 sash in tooled surround and with feet and continuous tooled sill band, third floor has three 2/2 round-arched sashes with pilasters between and tooled arches with keystones on continuous tooled sill band and with paired end pilasters. Gabled breakforwards to either side of central range have 3-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes to ground floor with tooled round-arched heads on outer corbels and chamfered mullions and sill; first floor has pair of 2/2 round-arched sashes in tooled surrounds and with cornices on consoles; attic to gable has Venetian window with 1/1 sashes (that to centre round-arched) and tooled head on consoles on continuous tooled sill. Gabled breakforwards between 2-storey and attic ranges have 2-light round-arched window with 1/1 sashes with chamfered mullion and sill and tooled arch on outer corbels to head; first-floor band and band above; first floor has 1/1 round-arched sash in tooled architrave and with cornice on consoles which interrupts second-floor band; attic to gable has 2-light 1/1 sashes with tooled surrounds and chamfered mullion and sill. Roof dormers have 3/3 sashes and open pedimented gables. Entrances to ends and centres of long ranges: flights of steps, roll-edged where

original to 4-panel outer double doors with fanlights with tooled arches to heads on corbels and recessed 4-panel, part-glazed doors with side-lights and fanlight. Left end has entrance to angle with 2-storey range. Wide eaves on brackets. Basement has some 6/6 sashes. Right return has ground-floor bow with horizontal rustication and 2/2 sashes, curved on section. Rear has 6/6 sashes with margin-lights. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including shutters to some windows; photographs dated 1993 show ground floor has embellished cornices with naturalistic ornament and marble fireplace with corbels, acanthus modillion cornice to entrance hall, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron details include area railings to Nos 3 and 6 with X-motif; to left return a first-floor balcony with Gothic arches. Ashlar features: first-floor continuous balustrade to ranges on brackets has pierced circle motif; similar balconies to breakforwards. Flights of steps have stone balustrades with pierced quatrefoils where original. Notable in the development of the English terrace as signifying a departure from the Neo-Classical into the informal Italianate, giving the appearance of a series of villas. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 143; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 71).

Listing NGR: SO9419621620

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 474938
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 71
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 143

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.