21 TO 31, PROMENADE, 20, CLARENCE STREET

20, CLARENCE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387623
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: 21 TO 31, PROMENADE, 20, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address:: 20, CLARENCE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387623
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: 21 TO 31, PROMENADE, 20, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 21 TO 31, PROMENADE

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:: 20, CLARENCE STREET
Statutory Address:: 21 TO 31, PROMENADE

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 94855 22430

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/731 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.21-31 (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (North West side) Nos.21-31, 43 AND 45 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: CLARENCE STREET (South side) No.20)

GV II

Includes: No.20 CLARENCE STREET. Terrace of 6 houses, now shops. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1820-30 with later additions and alterations including c1980s shop fronts to Nos 21 and 29 and 31. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, stucco party-wall stacks and iron verandah and balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, with attic to right return, 20 first-floor windows (3 per house except 2 to right). Ground floor breaks forwards. Stucco detailing includes continuous first-floor sill band; right end house has horizontal rustication to ground floor, continuing to right return, surmounted by end pilasters with sunk panels, that to left has carved floral decoration to panel, continuous frieze and cornice, low parapet; first-floor windows at right have tooled architraves and continuous cornice on console brackets. 6/6 sashes throughout. 6/6 sashes throughout, all in plain reveals and with sills. Ground floor: late C20 frontage to banking hall at left with glazed entrances to left and right. Otherside glazed shop fronts, some with turned mullions. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to right end a glazed verandah with Art Nouveau type ironwork; Nos 23 and 25 share a similar balustrade with broad verandah. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined drive to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel qv) from the Colonnade in the High Street, by 1826 it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walk on each side. Although originally on either side were 'rows of elegant houses', by 1845 when George Rowe wrote his Cheltenham Guide (published in 1850), he noted that 'nearly the whole of the left-hand (SE) side .. is devoted to professional or business establishments.' Buildings on the NW were first to be

developed. Forms a continuous terrace with Nos 33-45 Promenade (qv). (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Williams GA: Guide Book to the Cheltenham Spa: 1824-: 28; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide: Cheltenham: 1850-1969: 12).

Listing NGR: SO9485122450

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Legacy System number:: 475609
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Sources

Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 29
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-196912
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 146
Williams, G A, Guide Book to Cheltenham, (1824), 28

Legal

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