MADAME WRIGHTS ORMOND TERRACE

MADAME WRIGHTS, 1, ORMOND PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387386
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: MADAME WRIGHTS ORMOND TERRACE
Statutory Address:: MADAME WRIGHTS, 1, ORMOND PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387386
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1995
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: MADAME WRIGHTS ORMOND TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:: MADAME WRIGHTS, 1, ORMOND PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: ORMOND TERRACE, 1, REGENT STREET

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:: MADAME WRIGHTS, 1, ORMOND PLACE
Statutory Address:: ORMOND TERRACE, 1, REGENT 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 94828 22280

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE ORMOND PLACE 630-1/13/604 (South West side) 15/03/95 No.1 Madame Wright's (Formerly Listed as: ORMOND STREET Madame Wright's)

GV II

Includes: Ormond Terrace No.1 REGENT STREET. House, now shop. c1820-34 (shown as built on Merrett's Map of 1834) with later additions and alterations including raising of the upper part to right and shop front of 1924-5. Architects for alterations in 1924 were Healing and Overbury of Cheltenham with shop front by Frederick Sage and Company of London for Emily Cooper (nee Wright). Stucco over brick with glazed shop front with metal glazing bars and coloured marble surround; concealed roof with brick ridge stack to left part and stuccoed stack to right end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 8 first-floor windows. 6/6 sashes where original, with 1/1 lugged sashes; the left windows are blind. Crowning frieze and cornice. Shop front: 5 bays divided by marble pilasters, on plinth and with frieze and cornice. Central entrance, shop front has rounded glass brought in to double, glazed doors; otherwise each section has a projecting bay with curved glass, and frieze. Left return has 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes; first-floor band; entrance to left a C20 door with overlight. INTERIOR: to left part a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail. The shop part has oak panelling and staircase with bulbous balusters and carved newel; chimneypiece to left. HISTORICAL NOTE: the original house faced Ormond Terrace, Regent Street; it had 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows and was 3 windows deep with a service wing, which was probably of 2 storeys, and raised to full height when the house was purchased for Madame Wright's shop in 1924. The designers of the shop front, Sage of London, had an international clientele and Mrs Cooper (the proprietress) had seen their work in Paris. The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic in 1925 wrote, 'the new Shop .. adds greatly to the attractions of Cheltenham'. It 'is one of the finest and most modern in the West of England'. Occupies an important corner site visually linking the

Promenade to Regent Street. The return forms a group with Nos 2, 3 and 4 Ormond Terrace (qv) and Nos 5-8 (consec) Ormond Terrace (qv), Regent Street. This is a rare surviving example of a fine 1920s shop front. (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, 18 October 1924; Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, 6 June 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9482222283

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Legacy System number:: 475342
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Merrett, H S , Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
'Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic' in 6 June, (1925)
'Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic' in 18 October, (1924)

Legal

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