NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES

NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 11 AND 15-21, BERKELEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386751
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 11 AND 15-21, BERKELEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386751
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 11 AND 15-21, BERKELEY PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 11 AND 15 TO 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 11 AND 15-21, BERKELEY PLACE

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 95318 22095

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW BERKELEY PLACE 630-1/14/203 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.11 AND 15-21 (Odd) and attached railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: BERKELEY ROAD (North side) Nos.11-21 (Odd))

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Terrace of 5 houses, now offices and flats, with attached railings and gates. c1810-20, on the Post Office Map of 1820, but not on Mitchell's Map of 1810; with later additions and alterations. Ashlar over brick with slate roof and stucco party-wall stacks, wrought- and iron verandah and balconies, railings and gates. Double depth plan with full-height service wings to rear. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with basements, 18 first-floor window range (3 per house). Rusticated ground floor, drawn into voussoirs over doors and windows; floor bands; crowning frieze and cornice. First floor: tall 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise 1/1; second floor: mainly 6/6 sashes as original except to right are 1/1, all with sills; third floor: 3/3 sashes with sills throughout; ground floor: 6/6 sashes where original, otherwise 1/1; basement has 6/6 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances to right: round-arched openings with 6-fielded-panel doors, fluted frieze and fanlights, that to No.21 retains batwing-and-circle motif; further entrance (to No.11) to right return: 6-fielded-panel double doors with fanlight in solid porch with paired Doric pilasters. Right return has 4 first-floor window range, ramped down to 5th window in service range: five 6/6 sashes altogether with a 6/1 and 3/3 sash, otherwise blind openings. Rear has 6/6 sashes where original; No.17 has full-height bow. Left return has 'BERKELEY STREET' inscribed to first floor band. INTERIOR: No.11 has lobby with 6-panel, part-glazed door with fluted architrave and sidelights which continue round as wide overlight with beading; narrow-open-well staircase has stick balusters with panels of scrolled wrought-ironwork and wreathed handrail; No.21 has similar part-glazed door to lobby, sidelight and fanlight with decorative glazing bars; original joinery includes shutters to some windows; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous balcony to each house, except

to right a verandah, all with concentric circle motifs, verandah has frieze and tent roof. Spearhead railings across front and to sides of entrances, with similar gates to basements, the stanchions have urn finials; railings at No.21 supplied by William Churchill: urns marked with a 4 leaf clover. Some bootscrapers. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Berkeley family were prominent landowners and a powerful family in Cheltenham during the C19, providing the Liberal MP for 60 years. Originally the houses had formal gardens in front, these now form a public space. This is an early and substantial terrace retaining much of its original appearance, well set back from London Road, one of the main routes into Cheltenham, and forming an architectural unit with Nos 1-9 (odd), Berkeley Place (qv). (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 54; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 34-39; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 72).

Listing NGR: SO9533022089

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Legacy System number:: 474149
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Sources

Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 54
Radford, S, The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1880-1850, (1992), 34-39
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-196972

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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.