Numbers 121 and 123 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 121 AND 123 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 121 AND 123, PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387684
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 121 and 123 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 121 AND 123 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 121 AND 123, PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387684
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 121 and 123 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 121 AND 123 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 121 AND 123, PROMENADE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- NUMBERS 121 AND 123 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 121 AND 123, 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 94617 22115
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/754 (North West side) 12/03/55 Nos.121 AND 123 and attached railings
GV II*
Pair of semi-detached villas, now offices and attached railings. c1834-40 (shown as laid out on Merrett's Map of 1834). Possibly designed by John Forbes. Ashlar over brick with concealed roof and central and end brick and stucco stacks; iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 8 first-floor windows arranged 1:1:4:1:1. Double depth plan with outer side hallways. End and central breakforwards, ends have Composite-type pilasters through ground and first floors surmounted by continuous entablature; central 6-window range has ground-floor horizontal rustication, drawn into voussoirs over central 4 windows and with first-floor band. Outer windows have tooled architraves, those to ground floor have cambered heads and cornices on console brackets, those to first floor are eared. Central 4 first-floor windows have tooled architraves and cornices, otherwise first-floor windows have panels over. Outer windows to ground floor are tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, those to first floor are 6/6 with margin-lights; otherwise 6/6 sashes, taller to ground floor, and those to centre, ground floor in wider elliptically-arched recesses. Attic has two tripartite windows with mainly 2/2 sashes and casements. Basement has 6/6 and 8/8 sashes. Outer entrances, double 4-panel doors with overlights with lozenge glazing bars and margin-lights within pilastered doorcases. Rear: 5 Doric pilasters through ground and first floors, to ends and between pairs of windows surmounted by continuous crowning entablature. 6/6 sashes, taller to ground floor; 3/3 sashes to attic. INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork including acanthus cornice and anthemion ceiling frieze to ground-floor front room, ceiling roses; dogleg staircase has iron balusters, alternately embellished and stick balusters. Some marble fireplaces. Original joinery includes 4-panel doors and panelled shutters to windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous balcony, probably by Marshalls, has embellished scrolled heart motif derived from LN Cottingham. Railings to sides of steps are alternately embellished and sticks. HISTORICAL NOTE: Forbes acquired the plot of No.129 Promenade
(qv) in 1833. The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel (qv)) from the Colonnade on the High Street, by 1826 it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walk on each side. Buildings on the NW side were the first to be developed. Nos 121 and 123 form a distinguished group of semi-detached villas with Nos 125 and 127 (qv) and 129 and 131 (qv) Promenade, which with No.133 (qv) and The Queen's Hotel (qv) overlook Imperial Gardens. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Williams GA: Guide Book to Cheltenham: 1824-: 29; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29,40; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-; Blake S: 'The Unfortunate Mr Forbes': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1989-: 7-27).
Listing NGR: SO9461222114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 146
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 29, 40
Williams, G A, Guide Book to Cheltenham, (1824), 29
Merrett, H S, Plan of the Town of Cheltenham, (1834)
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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