LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT

LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT, 15 TO 29, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245385
Date first listed:: 05-May-1972
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT
Statutory Address:: LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT, 15 TO 29, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245385
Date first listed:: 05-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT, 15 TO 29, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Statutory Address:: LANSDOWN (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS WITH WALL AT LEFT, 15 TO 29, LANSDOWN ROAD

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94065 21762

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW LANSDOWN ROAD 630-1/17/451 (North side) 05/05/72 Nos.15-29 (Consecutive) Lansdown Place (terrace) and attached area railings with wall at left (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWN ROAD (North side) Nos.5-29 (Consecutive) (Lansdown Place)) (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWN ROAD (North side) Montpellier Court and No.4 Lansdown Place)

GV II*

Terrace of 15 houses, now houses, flats and offices with attached area railings and wall. Numbered right to left, described right to left. 1825-1835, with later alterations. Begun by JB Papworth for Pearson Thompson and completed by RW and C Jearrad. Ashlar over brick with slate mansard roofs and brick and stucco party-wall stacks with iron railings and verandahs. PLAN: houses designed in pairs with recessed, paired entrances and service ranges to rear; the regularity of the design, with main 6-window ranges, the end bays of which break forwards, then entrance bays set back behind loggias, is broken to the left 5 houses which have 2 sets of central entrances, then entrance to right, the 6-window ranges have stepped breakforwards. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics, on basements, 49 first-floor windows arranged 6:6:3:1:6:2:6:2:6:2:6:2:1. Ashlar detailing includes moulded band over basement; horizontal rustication to ground floor; breakforwards to main 6-window ranges (except those 2 to left); string course, frieze and cornice over first floor; crowning string, frieze and cornice with low parapet. 6/6 sashes where original. Attics have 3/3 sashes to where original. Entrances: those to left have paired central entrances, flights of roll-edged steps to 4-panel doors with sidelights and overlights with glazing bars, within shared porch with round arches on imposts and with tooled heads and keystones, cornice and blocking course; those to right are similar but paired entrances set behind straight-headed and

round-arched loggias. INTERIOR: retain many original joinery including shutters to windows, open-well staircases with alternate embellished and stick balusters and wreathed handrails, service stairs have stick balusters; embellished plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor verandahs have Carron Company double-heart-and-honeysuckle motif, except those to Nos 19-22 have bowed fronts, pierced frieze and embellished uprights. Area railings have embellished X-motif. Left end wall. HISTORICAL NOTE: Lansdown Place is shown on Papworth's plan as a 'streight' plot and is 'the only part of his original Lansdown design to have been completed largely as he intended. It consists of 15 pairs of houses, each joined to those on either side by a pair of recessed doorways'. Building began in 1825 and 14 houses had been completed by 1828. Probably another 5 houses had been finished by the time the Jearrad brothers bought the development from Thompson in 1830. From then it was finished to the Jearrads' direction with minor alterations to Papworth's design. Papworth's drawings for Lansdown Place are in the RIBA library. Forms a continuous design of quasi semi-detached houses with Nos 4-14 (consec) Lansdown Place, Lansdown Road (qv). (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 141; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 69; Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum: John Papworth, Architect. An exhibition of plans and drawings: Cheltenham: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SO9357121748

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Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 69
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 141

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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.