NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS

NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 2-34, EVESHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104289
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 2-34, EVESHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104289
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 2-34, EVESHAM 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:: NUMBERS 2 TO 34 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 2-34, EVESHAM 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 95219 22961

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW EVESHAM ROAD 630-1/6/310 (West side) 12/03/55 Nos.2-34 (Even) and attached area railings

GV II

Terrace of 17 houses, now houses, flats and hotel, and attached area railings (except to No.16). 1825-36. Built and completed to designs of William Jay. PLAN: entrances to right throughout. Nos 4 and 6, No.14 and No.22 break forwards. EXTERIOR: brick with stucco facades and slate roof, brick and stucco party-wall stacks; iron balconies, verandahs, window guards and railings. 3 storeys on basements, 17 x 3 first-floor windows; No.30 has attic. Stucco detailing includes ground- and first-floor plat bands, moulded second-floor band, full-height Tuscan pilasters between windows to No.2, Ionic to No.4, pilaster strips to No.6; stepped recessed panel to central windows of No 14; frieze, cornice and blocking course. Mainly 6/6 sashes (where original), some 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes, all in plain reveals, those to ground and second floors have sills. Roof dormer (to No.30) has casement window. Entrances: flights of steps (roll-edged where original) to 4- and 6-fielded-panel doors with sidelights and overlights. End returns have raised parapets, ramped upwards. Rear: many 6/6 sashes. Right return has blind openings. Right return has blind openings. INTERIOR: retain original joinery including panelled shutters; photographs taken in 1991 show No.12 as having embellished acanthus cornice and foliate ceiling frieze, and egg-and-dart pelmet, shutters; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings (missing to No.16) with alternate stick and ogeed trefoil heads and to sides of steps and across fronts with anthemions to stanchions except to Nos 4 and 16. First-floor continuous verandahs to Nos 2, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 24 have Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrades and scrolled uprights and openwork friezes; similar individual first-floor window balconies to Nos 4, 6, 8, 20, 28 and 32; and similar continuous first-floor balconies to Nos 30 and 34. No.8 has window guards with anthemion motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as part of the development of this area undertaken for Joseph Pitt in 1825-42. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 6).

Listing NGR: SO9521922961

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Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 6

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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.