Columbia Place and Attached Area Railings to Numbers 112 and 122

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CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW WINCHCOMBE STREET 630-1/10/1016 (West side) 12/03/55 Nos.112-122 (Even) Columbia Place and attached area railings to Nos.112 and 122

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses and attached railings to left, now houses, flats and offices. 1824-5 with later additions and alterations. For Thomas Thompson; architect William Jay. Stucco over brick with slate mansard roof and party-wall brick and stuccoed stacks and cast- and wrought-iron verandah, balustrade, balcony dividers and basement grilles. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys with basement and attics, 1 + 18 first-floor windows (4 to left, otherwise 3 per house). End houses break forward, are 3 storeys and pedimented, incorporating to left a 2-storey entrance bay. Stucco detailing includes first-floor band to end houses, left end house has panelled aprons below first-floor windows; all with crowning moulded band, cornices, and to centre range a coped parapet with stepped panels. Ground floor has tall 1/1 horned sashes. First floor has 6/6 sashes where original; 3rd floor has replacement 1/1 sashes, and with round-arched first-floor window to left. Entrances alternately to left and right, with that to right end house to return, steps to 6-panel doors (several part-glazed), mainly with overlights with margin-lights, that to left in round-arched recess. Across centre range and between end ranges a first-floor pierced balcony on tall, slender square pillars with incised moulding, forming a piazza to ground floor. Flights of steps, roll-edged where original, lead to piazza in front of entrances. Attic has 6/6 sashes where original. Rear retains 6/6 sashes, to No. 118 are tripartite 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. INTERIOR: to right a narrow-open-well staircase with stick balusters, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: centre range has guards (some damaged) to piazza with anthemion motif. Grilles hide basement area. Parapet has wrought-iron balustrades with scrolled rose motif between panelled stucco balustrade. First-floor balcony dividers have radial spokes. Area railings to left. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly known as Columbia Place, so-named as Thompson had made his fortune supplying cavalry equipment to various South American states. In 1826 William Cobbett saw 'a new row of most gaudy and fantastical dwelling places, called Columbia Place'. Rowe described them as 'a handsome row of

buildings' and included an illustration in his Cheltenham Guide. An unusual terrace design, distinguished by the loggia and balustrade which link the pedimented outer bays. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 38-39; Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 35; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 53; Radford S: The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1800-1850: 1992-: 49-54).



Listing NGR: SO9523322784

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Sources

Books and journals
Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 38-39
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 35
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-1969, (), 53
Radford, S, The Terraced Houses of Cheltenham 1880-1850, (1992), 49-54

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