Nos. 47-73 (Odd), PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67

47 to 73, PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67, GL52 2BY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387597
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: Nos. 47-73 (Odd), PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67
Statutory Address:: 47 to 73, PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67, GL52 2BY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387597
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: Nos. 47-73 (Odd), PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67
Statutory Address 1:: 47 to 73, PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67, GL52 2BY

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Location

Statutory Address:: 47 to 73, PRESTBURY ROAD, SELKIRK HOUSE (NUMBER 73) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 47 TO 57, 65 AND 67, GL52 2BY

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 95589 22976

Details

SO 9522 NE, 630-1/11/706

CHELTENHAM, PRESTBURY ROAD (South East side), Nos. 47-73 (Odd), Selkirk House (No.73) and attached railings to Nos. 47-57, 65 and 67

12/03/55

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Terrace of 14 houses and attached railings to Nos 47-57, 65 and 67. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1840-50 with later additions and alterations including C20 attics to No.73. Possibly by Abraham Tyler, builder. Stucco over brick with slate roof where original, and brick party-wall stacks; iron window boxes and railings. Double-depth plan, mainly with side hallways, except central hallway to left house and with service ranges to rear throughout.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys on basement and with attics to left (No. 73) and to Nos. 55 and 53, twenty-nine first-floor windows (three to left house, then two per house). Stucco detailing includes pilaster with sunk panel and anthemion motif to capital to party-wall, except at left there are Doric pilasters to ends and between windows; crowning entablature (raised to left); to ground-floor windows have tooled architraves and windows and doors have cornices on corbel brackets; first-floor moulded sill bands except to left house. 6/6 sashes where original, those to ground floor are tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, otherwise tripartite 1/1 sashes, some with lugs; basement has 8/8 sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: that to left house is central and within distyle Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes to frieze, then one to left, otherwise at right, flights of steps (roll-edged where original) to 3- and 4-panel doors, some part-glazed, with overlights (with margin-lights where original). Left return: 3 windows deep, mainly blind and with 6/6 sashes.

INTERIOR: noted as having retained original joinery including panelled shutters to some windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Nos 53, 57 and 69 have window boxes with scroll motifs, that to No. 71 is ornate. Mainly stick balustrades and arrowhead railings and some scrolled balustrades to sides of steps throughout; area railings to Nos. 51, 65 and 67 have X-motif. Arrowhead dividing railings with anthemion finials to left of Nos. 47-57; No. 51 has forecourt arrowhead railings with urn finials. HISTORICAL NOTE: Abraham Tyler, builder, is known to have constructed many of the houses on the NW side of Prestbury Road c1840, they are shown as laid out on Merrett's 1834 Map, whereas the SE side is not. No.73 thought to have been by Tyler.

Listing NGR: SO9560022976

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Merrett, H S , Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)

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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.