Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER GROVE
630-1/23/530 (West side)
05/05/72 No.2
and attached wall and area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
SUFFOLK ROAD
(North side)
No.1)
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELLIER GROVE
Nos.2, 3 AND 4)

GV II

Includes: No.1 SUFFOLK ROAD.
Pair of semi-detached villas, attached wall to right and area
railings. c1830-40. Stucco over brick with ashlar porch;
concealed roof; iron area railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing
includes first-floor band surmounted by full-height Doric
pilasters to ends, centre and outer windows, surmounted by
continuous frieze and cornice. Ground floor at right has
horizontal rustication. 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to
ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. Basement
has 6/6 and 8/8 sashes. Entrances in porches set in return
elevation: that to right: flight of roll-edged steps to
4-panel door with fanlight with radial glazing bars to head;
further entrance to left return: 3 steps to 4-panel door in
projecting porch with lattice frieze and fanlight with radial
glazing bars and tooled arch with keystone in pilastered
surround with entablature. Otherwise left return has 3
first-floor windows, irregularly spaced; full-height pilasters
to ends and to first floor over porch; 6/6 sash over porch,
3/3 sash at left and round-arched staircase window; blind
openings at right.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery and plasterwork
including panelled shutters to windows, panelled doors,
moulded cornices, and fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have scrolled lozenge
motif. Wall at right has round-arched opening and copings.
Wall abuts Nos 3 and 4 Montpellier Grove (qv).

Listing NGR: SO9466521462

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397878

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey