Montpellier Exchange
Montpellier Exchange, Cheltenham, GL50 1SJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1103870
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Statutory Address:
- Montpellier Exchange, Cheltenham, GL50 1SJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1103870
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Statutory Address 1:
- Montpellier Exchange, Cheltenham, GL50 1SJ
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Montpellier Exchange, Cheltenham, GL50 1SJ
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 94393 21806
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 July 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to change in building use, and reformat the text to current standards
SO9421NW
630-1/17/527
CHELTENHAM
Montpellier Exchange
(Formerly listed as Barclay's Bank, MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE)
05/05/72
GV
II
Shops (bank at time of listing). 1843 with later alterations including mansard roof. Architect: possibly Samuel W Daukes and J Hamilton. Ashlar over brick with slate mansard roof.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with attic, six first floor windows. Ground floor has plinth; banded rustication surmounted by cornice; first floor windows have tooled architraves, frieze and cornice over first floor. Angles are chamfered. Left end and off-centre right entrances, double two-fielded-panel doors with overlights in tooled architraves, that to left in recess; further recess to fourth ground floor opening and at right end. Two 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, two 6/6 sashes. First floor has 6/9 sashes. Attic has 3/6 sashes. Returns are two windows deep, those to ground floor are 6/6 sashes in shared architrave; first floor has two 6/9 sashes to left and blind opening and 2/2 sash to left. 'MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE' carved to right return. Rounded angles to rear; rear retains 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: reputed to have narrow open-well staircase with stick balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a block of three shops. This may have been designed by SW Daukes and J Hamilton who, c1844, were designing shops on Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier Street (qv). Occupies an important site at the junction of Montpellier Walk, Montpellier Terrace and Lansdown Road.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-; Blake S: 'The Building of the Montpellier Shops': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1984-).
Listing NGR: SO9439321811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475011
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993)
Blake, S, Cheltenham Local History Society Journal in The Building of the Montpellier Shops, (1984)
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