NUMBERs 1 TO 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS TO NUMBER 1

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CHELTENHAM

SO9523SW WELLINGTON SQUARE 630-1/6/987 (West side) 05/05/72 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) and attached railings, walls and piers to No.1

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Terrace of 12 houses, now flats to Nos 6, 11 and 12; with attached walls, railings and piers at left. 1845-59 (Nos 1-5 built 1845-7, Nos 6-12 built 1856-9). Builders, William Williams, Elisha Williams and James Williams. Ashlar over brick with slate roofs, tall left end and party-wall stuccoed stacks, mainly with cornices; brick wall, stucco over brick piers and iron railings. Double depth plan with side hallways; 3-lower-storey service ranges at rear. EXTERIOR: end and 2 centre houses of 3 storeys, otherwise 2 storeys, on basements, 24 first-floor windows (2 per house). Centre and end ranges break forwards. First floor: end houses have outer 1/1 sashes, then canted bays through basement, ground and first floors with 1/1 sashes; centre has two 1/1 sashes between similar canted bays with 1/1 sashes. Bays are crenellated. Otherwise first floor has 2-light and ground floor has 3-light mullion and transom windows, all in stepped reveals and with hoodmoulds, those to first floor with label stops and those to ground floor with shield stops. Second floor, mainly 1/1 sashes, those 2 to centre have shared, stepped hoodmould and central statue in niche. Entrances: 1 to left, 5 to right, 5 to left and 1 to right: flights of steps to 4-centre-arched openings with carved decoration to spandrels, those to ends have hoodmoulds with shield stops, those 2 to centre with pillar between and shared latticework frieze, ranges between have off-set buttresses with pinnacles with finials and arcaded frieze; within are 4- and 5-panel doors (some upper panels round-arched, some with 4-centred arched, some with cusped lights) some part-glazed, with sidelights and overlights with margin-lights and Gothic glazing bars. Crowning crenellation to inner ranges, outer houses have gable over bay with finial, central gable between 2 small raised gables with shield decoration. Basement has 1/1 and 2/2 sashes. Rear retains many 6/6 and 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes. INTERIOR: reputed to retain original joinery including panelled shutters and plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at left a wall for approx 2m, then gabled pier with traceried panels, 3m stretch of alternate spearhead

and paired, round-arched railings; similar end pier. Embellished railings to sides of steps throughout, to central houses are low stucco walls with pierced arcades. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Pittville Estate, the layout of which was designed by the architect John Forbes for Joseph Pitt; although much of this Estate was built 1825-42, this terrace was built after Pitt's death. Nos 1-5 known in 1848 as Eton Place. William Charles Macready lived at No.6 from 1860-1873. All the listed buildings in Wellington Square form a good group, laid out around a central grassed area. This terrace is a fine example of 'Regency Gothic' detail applied to an overall Classical form. (Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 64).



Listing NGR: SO9505323160

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Blake, S, Pittville 1824-1860, (1988), 64

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