NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES

NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 114-124, BATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386720
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 114-124, BATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386720
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 114-124, BATH 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 114 TO 124 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 114-124, BATH 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 94918 21742

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE BATH ROAD 630-1/18/175 (South East side) 12/03/55 Nos.114-124 (Even) and attached railings and gates

GV II

Terrace of 3 pairs of houses with attached area railings and gates throughout. c1820-23. Painted stucco over brick with slate roofs, those to Nos 114 and 116 are mansard roofs, stucco end and party-wall stacks; wrought-iron window guards and iron railings and gates. PLAN: double depth plan with entrances in lower linking blocks forming a row of quasi semi-detached houses. EXTERIOR: Three-storeys with attics and basements, 12 first-floor window range (2 per house), with pairs divided by 3-lower-storey, single-window recessed entrance bays. Stucco detailing includes: rusticated ground floor, first-floor band, first-floor window architraves with frieze and cornice; crowning frieze, cornice and low parapet with panelled piers at ends. First floor: full-height sashes, mainly 6/6, taller to first floor. Second floor: 3/6 sashes with sills throughout. Ground floor: 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise 1/1 sashes. Entrance bays have mainly 3/3 sashes. Basements have 3/6 sashes. All windows in plain reveals. Attic dormers concealed behind parapet. Entrances: 3 roll-edged steps to 6-fielded-panel doors (some double doors, some part-glazed) those to central blocks have overlights and between entrances are panelled square columns with foliate caps, 3 retain dentil frieze, all with cornice and panelled parapet, surmounting urn to Nos 120 and 122; entrance to left end has fanlight, in tooled surround, that to right end has overlight, within round-arched recess. Attics: roof dormers to Nos 114 and 116, otherwise to gables. Rear: elevations have floor bands and mainly 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: No.118 includes embellished cornices and shutters, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: blind boxes to ground floor, Nos 118 and 120; individual balconies to first-floor windows with anthemion motif. Railings to sides of steps and to areas with gates to basement steps: Gothic-arched to Nos 122 and 124, otherwise with alternate lozenge and waved bars; anthemion finials to stanchions. HISTORICAL NOTE: Admiral and Midshipman Boyes (VC hero at age of 18) lived here in No.118. Originally known as Paragon Buildings, it included Nos 114-136. Trollope lived at a house

in the terrace for a year. An impressive terrace composition, retaining its piers (qv). (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 32; Sampson A & Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 91).

Listing NGR: SO9491821742

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Legacy System number:: 474116
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 32
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 91

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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.