Rotunda Buildings
Rotunda Buildings, Montpellier Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387326
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Rotunda Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- Rotunda Buildings, Montpellier Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387326
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rotunda Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rotunda Buildings, Montpellier Street
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Rotunda Buildings, Montpellier Street
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 94368 21796
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 July 2025 to correct a typo in the address and to reformat the text to current standards
SO9421NW
630-1/17/546
CHELTENHAM
MONTPELLIER STREET (East side)
Rotunda Buildings
(Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER STREET (East side) Regency House)
05/05/72
GV
II
Shops with offices over. c1820-1834 with later additions and alterations, including later C19 bow and shop fronts. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stacks to right.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, four first-floor windows arranged 3:1, including full height bow which breaks forwards to left. Stucco detailing includes pilasters with horizontal rustication to either side of bow through ground and first floors; windows have tooled architraves, that to second floor at right with corbelled feet; moulded second-floor sill band; crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course and copings. 6/6 sashes where original. First floor, central window to bow has floating segmental pediment. Entrance at right angle a double part-glazed door with overlight in round-arched surround with keystone which 'supports' bowed lower part of flying upper storey; further entrance to later C19 glazed shop-front curved on plan, with slender pilasters in bow, a central part-glazed door with dentil frieze and overlight. Further 6/6 sashes to left and right returns; left return has irregular fenestration with 6/6 sashes to upper stage, ground floor has shop front to left with plate-glass windows between slender mullions and carved decoration to the spandrels, canted into part-glazed door with lower panel, dentil frieze and swan-neck pediment and overlight.
Right return has three first-floor windows and to ground floor a shop front with tripartite window with ashlar mullions and tooled architrave, then a shop front with slender modillions and caps, and glazing canted into part-glazed door with dentil frieze.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Merrett's Map of 1834, but apparently without bow.
Forms a group with Nos 2-8 (even) Montpellier Street (qv). (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).
Listing NGR: SO9436921798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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