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NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK)

NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK), 1 TO 23, MONTPELLIER WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1387359
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK)
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK), 1 TO 23, MONTPELLIER WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1387359
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK)
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK), 1 TO 23, MONTPELLIER WALK

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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 23 AND HANOVER HOUSE (PREMISES OF THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK), 1 TO 23, MONTPELLIER WALK

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 94453 21911

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CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW MONTPELLIER WALK 630-1/17/578 (West side) 12/03/55 Nos.1-23 (Consecutive) and Hanover House (Premises of the National Westminster Bank)

GV II*

Terrace of shops with flats over, now mainly storage. c1836-45, with caryatids of 1840. Designed by WH Knight; at least 3 caryatids are by Rossi of London, serving as models for others by WG Brown of Tivoli Street, Cheltenham; National Westminster Bank converted by Eric Cole c1970. Ashlar over brick with mansard slate roof and terracotta caryatids. PLAN: L-shaped with opening to lower, shorter part. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, mostly 1 window each (Nos 19-23 have 2 windows. Ashlar detailing includes pilasters with sunk panel to most party walls; tooled, eared architraves to first floor 2-window ranges; cornice sweeps up; balustraded parapet. First floor has 6/6 and tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes where original. 8/8 and 6/6 sashes to mansard, further attic dormers with casements. Mainly 6/6 sashes, those to bow are curved on section; also to roof dormers. Rear: elevations to Montpellier Street are good 3-storey, ashlar, first-floor windows have pediments. INTERIOR: noted as retaining some original plasterwork and joinery. HISTORICAL NOTE: although dated 1836 to the south end, Blake points out that no other evidence suggests such an early date, it is not shown on Griffith's 1838 Map and the earliest reference occurs in 1841 to "2 additional shops". By 1841 the north end of the Walk, opposite Montpellier Arcade (qv) had been built, forming a covered entrance to the tree-lined walk, leading from the Old Well and Imperial Spa to Montpellier (on which the shops were to be built). Rowe illustrates the north end of the Walk with bow and indicates that the shops along this side were occupied by Mr Merrett, Cook and Confectioner; Mrs Hacker's Magasin of Modes; and Mr Draper, Tailor; Rowe does not indicate any other shops had been completed in this development. Rowe describes, 'the bow front on the left of the entrance .. occupied by two handsome shops, the windows of which are separated by Caryatids - elegant Grecian figures, representing Athenian virgins, dressed in their Panathenaic costume'. Montpellier Walk was originally known as the Grand Promenade. This unique row of shops was described by Verey as, 'A

charming example of intimate Classical architecture' and is an outstanding example of its type, both for its significance as commercial architecture of the period and the C19 terracotta revival. The rear elevations of Nos 1-23 form a group with Regency House and Nos 2-8 Montpellier Street (qv). (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 140; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 18; Country Life 16.1.1926; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 26; Blake S: 'The Building of the Montpellier Shops': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SO9461021479

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

Legacy System number:: 475315
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-196918
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 18
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 140
'Country Life' in 16 January, (1926), 26
Blake, S, 'Cheltenham Local History Society Journal' in The Building of the Montpellier Shops, (1984)

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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.