21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS, 9, SUFFOLK ROAD
21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387353
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS, 9, SUFFOLK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387353
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS, 9, SUFFOLK ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS
- Statutory Address 2:
- 9, SUFFOLK ROAD
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:
- 21, MONTPELLIER VILLAS
- Statutory Address:
- 9, SUFFOLK ROAD
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 94609 21465
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9421SE MONTPELLIER VILLAS 630-1/23/572 (West side) 14/12/83 No.21
GV II
Includes: No.9 SUFFOLK ROAD. 2 houses, now house and shop. c1824-8. Architect possibly John Forbes. Stucco over brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band; crowning moulded string, frieze and cornice with blocking course and copings. 8/8 sashes in plain reveals and with sills, except to ground floor at left a shop front with 3-light wooden mullion-and-transom window in pilastered surround with frieze and end brackets and cornice. Central entrance a part-glazed 4-panel door in plain reveals. Left return: single bay. Ground floor has wide shop front with similar surround and encompassing at right, set back, a 4-panel door with overlight. First floor has tripartite window with 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and with cornice on acanthus corbels. Crowning mouldings continue from main facade. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the street was originally known as Montpellier Retreat. Forbes was architect and surveyor to the Pittville Estate c1835-6. (Blake S: 'The Unfortunate Mr Forbes': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1989-: 7-27).
Listing NGR: SO9458321470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blake, S, Cheltenham Local History Society Journal in The Unfortunate Mr Forbes, (1989), 7-27
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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