NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
List entry Number: 1104262
Location
NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CRESCENT PLACE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cheltenham
District Type: District Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 14-Dec-1983
Date of most recent amendment: 26-Nov-1998
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 474578
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Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SE CRESCENT PLACE
630-1/13/297 (West side)
14/12/83 No.2
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CRESCENT PLACE
(West side)
John Dower House (Forestry
Commission) and No.2)
GV II
2 terraced houses, now offices and attached railings.
c1820-25, shown as laid out on the Post Office Map of 1820,
with later alterations. Stucco over brick with slate roof and
tall reddish-brown brick party-wall stack with cornice; iron
area railings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco
detailing includes first- and second-floor bands; crowning
frieze, cornice and blocking course. Mainly 6/6 sashes, taller
to first floor and with sills; three 8-pane French windows to
ground floor. Basement has plank door and 3-light window.
Entrances: that to No.2 at left, flight of roll-edged steps to
double 4-panel doors in Doric pilastered surround with frieze,
cornice and blocking course. Otherwise entrance to return.
Right return: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows.
The left end is taller. Plinth. Stucco detailing includes
first-floor band and continuous second-floor sill band at left
and centre. Off-centre left entrance: flight of steps to
6-panel double doors in pilastered surround with hood on
corbel brackets, overlight with sunburst glazing bars and
architrave above. 6/6 sashes to left, centre part has two
tripartite windows with 4/4 between 2/2 sashes; to right a
full-height canted bay with two 6/6 sashes to front between
2/2 sashes.
INTERIOR: retains original joinery including panelled
shutters, otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings to sides of steps and to
forecourt, with urn finials to stanchions.
Forms a group with John Dower House, Crescent Place (qv) and
No.42, Clarence Street (qv).
Listing NGR: SO9472622478
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: SO 94731 22476
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