Bayshill Lodge (1 2 and 3) Ballroom Mews Arch to North West and Numbers 1 to 19 Rotunda Terrace

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CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW MONTPELLIER STREET 630-1/17/541 (West side) 12/03/55 Bayshill Lodge (1, 2 & 3), ballroom, mews arch to NW & Nos.1-19 Rotunda Terrace (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER STREET (West side) Archway to Mews NW of Bayshill Lodge, 1-3 Bayshill Lodge, 1-19 Rotunda Terrace)

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House, ballroom and mews arch with terrace of 19 shops, all now shops, with attached railings to arch and ballroom. 1844-51; Nos 1-5 completed by 1847; with later additions and alterations. Architects: SW Daukes and J Hamilton (of Gloucester); builder of Nos 1-5 was William Swain. Ashlar over brick with slate roof and iron railings attached to arch. Development L-shaped on plan with bow to angle. EXTERIOR: mews arch facing south abuts former ballroom, one storey with attic and of 2 bays, and with an elliptical facade which joins the 3-storey main block: the first part of this is Bayshill Lodge, with 3-window front facing south, then the south end of thee main terrace facade facing east onto Montpellier Street has a 3-window bow facing south; main terrace has 28 first-floor windows, arranged 3 (to bow):1:1:3:1:3:3:3:1:3:1:3:1:1. Arch has heavy, chamfered imposts and tooling to head with keystone; stepped plinth; crowning frieze, stepped cornice and surmounting shallow scroll and upshot. Ballroom has horizontal rustication drawn into voussoirs over windows; 1/1 round-arched sashes with guilloche moulding to architraves and keystones to heads; central round-arched entrance with C20 glazed doors and tall fanlight, keystone; modillion frieze and cornice on paired acanthus console brackets and low parapet. Mansard roof set back has 6/6 sashes. Bayshill Lodge: central breakforward and range to right set further back. 2 left First- and second-floor windows have tooled architraves, those to second floor have sills on feet, otherwise plain reveals and sills; first-floor band. First floor has 2/2 sashes, second floor has 3/3 sashes. Frieze and modillion cornice. Attic roof dormer has casements. Ground floor has entrance at left, C20 glazed doors with

cambered-arched overlight. To right a further entrance has 8-fielded-panel door with overlight and pilasters, frieze and cornice. Shops: single-window ranges break forwards. Ashlar detailing includes: ground-floor pilasters with horizontal rustication to breakforwards (the cornices form part of the continuous cornice), surmounted to first floor by rusticated pilasters. Paired Doric pilasters to ground-floor shop fronts, continuous frieze and cornice; band and continuous moulded sill band which is stepped below windows, forming aprons. First-floor windows have tooled architraves, frieze and pediments. Second-floor windows have moulded band, and continuous moulded cornice with blocking course. All continuous bands are ramped downwards at intervals. First floor has tall, 2/2 horizontal-pane and 6/6 sashes in plain reveals; second floor has 3/3 sashes. Several C19 shop fronts survive, including No.7 with slender half-columnar modillions and 4-panel, part-glazed door with overlight; Nos 10 and 12 have 2/2 sash with margin-lights between Doric pilasters; Nos 13, 17 and 18 have central entrance with double doors between sash windows (1/1 sashes), and to right a tall 2-panel door with overlights. Nos 14 and 15 have 4-panel, part-glazed doors with overlights. Bow at angle has off-centre entrance, C20 part-glazed door; retaining dentil frieze and divided overlight; otherwise glass curved on section into entrance with slender cylindrical mullions with shaped caps and bases, and glazed frieze with stained glass. Rear retains many 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: retain original plasterwork and joinery in many cases; otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings abut Arch and Ballroom. HISTORICAL NOTE: forms part of the Bays Hill Estate and built on the site of Grove House. Montpellier Street was formerly known as Old Well Lane. It is reputed that Bayshill Lodge was built as a private dwelling, with later ballroom added to left, abutting Mews Arch. Blake states that, 'Rotunda Terrace was built as part of a concerted effort to create a purpose-built shopping area', of which it is an outstanding example in a national context, complimenting Nos 2-8 (qv). No.6 Rotunda Terrace was listed on 31.7.70. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 12; Blake S: 'The Building of the Montpellier Shops': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1984-).



Listing NGR: SO9435221866

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Sources

Books and journals
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 12
Blake, S, Cheltenham Local History Society Journal in The Building of the Montpellier Shops, (1984)

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