NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS

NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS, 8 AND 9, MONTPELLIER VILLAS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387348
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1982
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS, 8 AND 9, MONTPELLIER VILLAS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387348
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS, 8 AND 9, MONTPELLIER VILLAS

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 8 AND 9 AND ADJOINING WALLS, 8 AND 9, MONTPELLIER VILLAS

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 94667 21560

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER VILLAS 630-1/18/567 (East side) 03/12/82 Nos.8 AND 9 and adjoining walls (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER VILLAS (East side) Nos.6-9 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses and walls adjoining. c1824-8. Architect probably John Forbes. Ashlar over brick with brick and stucco party-wall stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan with outer stairwells. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics with single-storey entrance bays set back to sides and walls adjoining. Ashlar detailing includes first-floor band; 2 crowning incised bands, moulded string, frieze and cornice with stepped blocking course. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills. Those to ground floor have wider, segmental-arched openings and blind boxes with lozenge motif. Basements have 4/8 sashes where original. End entrances: renewed steps to 6-panel doors (the upper panels raised and fielded) and overlights (that to right with margin-lights), in plain reveals. First-floor band continues over entrance. Low walls adjoining have plank doors and copings. INTERIOR: noted as having original joinery including panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: coped walls abut to sides. HISTORICAL NOTE: the street was originally known as Montpellier Retreat. Forbes was architect to the Pittville Estate c1835-6. Revd L Lewis lived at No.8 c1845. Walls abut No.7 at left (qv). (Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 38; Blake S: 'The Unfortunate Mr Forbes': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1989-: 7-27).

Listing NGR: SO9466921563

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-196938
Blake, S, 'Cheltenham Local History Society Journal' in The Unfortunate Mr Forbes, (1989), 7-27

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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.