Numbers 33 to 45 and Attached Railings

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CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/735 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.33-45 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (North West side) Nos.33-41 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (North West side) Nos.21-31, 43 AND 45) (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE Nos.45B AND 45C)

GV II

Symmetrical terrace of 4 houses, now shops and bank. c1820 with later additions and alterations including conversion to shops probably c1845-76 and mainly early C20 shop fronts. Stucco over brick with concealed roof, stucco end and party-wall stacks; ashlar ground-floor shop fronts and wrought-iron balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 26 first-floor windows, with attic storey to right 9 window range. Breakforwards to end 2 windows, 18th, 21st-23rd and 26th windows. End breakforward has pilaster strips embellished with scrolled foliage. Right breakforward has 4 fluted Ionic pilasters, surmounted by continuous entablature over second floor and with bands of anthemion and palmette motifs between first and second floors. First-floor windows have tooled architraves to 2 windows at left, to 18th and 26th windows; all have floating cornices. 3 first-floor centre windows to centre of 9-window range have floating cornices on consoles. Low parapets and copings to ends which partly conceal attics. Parapet to centre has raised panels, those to centre have wreaths and surmounted by scrolls. 6/6 sashes except to attic which has 3/6 sashes. Ground-floor shop fronts: to left has Corinthian columns between plate-glass windows, with continuous entablature, entrance to left angle has shouldered and tooled architrave and pediment with double, glazed doors; then shop front with Ionic columns and entablature; the next has Corinthian columns and entablature; then glazed shop front; 9-window range has central entrance with distyle Roman Doric portico and surmounting acroteria, and continuous entablature. Left return: 3 storeys and attic

to mansard, 7 first-floor windows. Similar stucco detailings include end and off-centre right pilasters with ornate scroll decoration to panels, off-centre left Doric pilaster; crowning entablature and low parapet. Ground-floor (to banking hall) has similar ashlar Corinthian half-columns. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Nos 37 and 41 have balconies with curved quarterings in square. Steps up have railings and scraper to No.41. 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 Rowe wrote his Cheltenham Guide (published 1850), he noted that 'nearly the whole of the left-hand side .. is devoted to professional or business establishments'. Buildings on the NW were the first to be developed. The upper floors to No.33 in particular form a very well-proportioned and richly-detailed neo-Classical design. Forms a continuous terrace with Nos 21-31 (odd), Promenade (qv). Nos 33-41 listed 31.7.70; Nos 45B and 45C listed 5.5.72. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 26; Williams GA: Guide Book to Cheltenham: 1824-: 29; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide: Cheltenham: 1850-1969: 10-11).

Listing NGR: SO9479822380

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Sources

Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 26
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-1969, (), 10-11
Williams, G A, Guide Book to Cheltenham, (1824), 29

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