Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NW MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE
630-1/17/527 (South side)
05/05/72 Barclay's Bank

GV II

Shops, now bank. 1843 with later alterations including mansard
roof. Architect: possibly Samuel W Daukes and J Hamilton.
Ashlar over brick with slate mansard roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 6 first-floor windows. Ground
floor has plinth; banded rustication surmounted by cornice;
first-floor windows have tooled architraves, frieze and
cornice over first floor. Angles are chamfered. Left end and
off-centre right entrances, double 2-fielded-panel doors with
overlights in tooled architraves, that to left in recess;
further recess to 4th ground-floor opening and at right end.
Two 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, two 6/6 sashes. First floor has
6/9 sashes. Attic has 3/6 sashes. Returns are 2 windows deep,
those to ground floor are 6/6 sashes in shared architrave;
first floor has two 6/9 sashes to left and blind opening and
2/2 sash to left. 'MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE' carved to right
return. Rounded angles to rear; rear retains 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: reputed to have narrow open-well staircase with
stick balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a block of 3 shops. This may have
been designed by SW Daukes and J Hamilton who, c1844, were
designing shops on Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier Street (qv).
Occupies an important site at the junction of Montpellier
Walk, Montpellier Terrace and Lansdown Road.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham:
1993-; Blake S: 'The Building of the Montpellier Shops':
Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SO9439321811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397875

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