Numbers 6 to 11 and Attached Railings

NUMBERS 6 TO 11 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6-11, CAMBRAY PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386770
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:
Numbers 6 to 11 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 6 TO 11 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6-11, CAMBRAY PLACE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1386770
Date first listed:
12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:
Numbers 6 to 11 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 6 TO 11 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6-11, CAMBRAY PLACE

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 6 TO 11 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6-11, CAMBRAY PLACE

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 95027 22253

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW CAMBRAY PLACE 630-1/14/221 (North side) 12/03/55 Nos.6-11 (Consecutive) and attached railings

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Terrace of 6 houses (now houses, flats and commercial buildings) with attached railings. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1810-30: most of the terrace shown on the Post Office Map of 1820 (with a possible gap to east, Nos 6 and 7), all shown on Merrett's 1834 map. Railings supplied by W Wheeler; balustrades manufactured by Carron Company. Brick with stucco facades and slate roof; iron verandahs (except to No.11) and forecourt railings throughout. Double depth plan with service ranges to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 18 first-floor windows (3 per house). Stucco detailing includes: rustication to ground floor drawn into voussoirs over openings; floor bands; frieze, cornice and blocking course. Basement, first and second floors have 6/6 sashes, taller to first floor; 1/1 replacement sashes to ground floor; all in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances (3 to left, 3 to right): flights of steps to 5- and 6-panel doors between pilaster strips and side-lights with wide fanlights with batwing-and-circle glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected, but some shutters visible. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: first-floor verandahs to all except No.11 have heart-and-anthemion motif to balustrades, probably supplied by W Wheeler who supplied the railings to Nos 6-9 (name on urn finials); area railings throughout have stick balusters and lattice panels, some reset; spearhead railings to sides of steps and between plots, some with anthemion finials to street. Ground-floor window boxes to No.10 have scroll motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: Cambray Place was a wide avenue leading to Cambray House, at one time rented to the Duke of Wellington but since demolished and replaced by a mid-C20 block of flats. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1992-: 145; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 37; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 40-48; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).



Listing NGR: SO9501622241

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Legacy System number:
474169
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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 145
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 37
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Radford, S, The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1880-1850, (1992), 40-48

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 6 to 11 and Attached Railings

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