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Numbers 1 to 11 11A 15 and 17 and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8914 / 51°53'29"N

Longitude: -2.081 / 2°4'51"W

OS Eastings: 394521

OS Northings: 221435

OS Grid: SO945214

Mapcode National: GBR 2MB.8PW

Mapcode Global: VH947.WQ6D

Plus Code: 9C3VVWR9+HH

Entry Name: Numbers 1 to 11 11A 15 and 17 and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 12 March 1955

Last Amended: 26 November 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1245776

English Heritage Legacy ID: 474653

ID on this website: 101245776

Location: Montpellier, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50

County: Gloucestershire

District: Cheltenham

Electoral Ward/Division: Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Cheltenham

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Leckhampton St Philip and St James

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

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Description



CHELTENHAM

SO9421SE GREAT NORWOOD STREET
630-1/23/344 (West side)
12/03/55 Nos.1-11, 11A, 15 AND 17 (Odd)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
GREAT NORWOOD STREET
(West side)
Nos.1-39 (Odd))

GV II

Terrace of 9 houses and attached railings and area railings to
Nos 15 and 17. c1830-40 with later additions and alterations
including C19 ground-floor shop-front to Nos 1, 7 and 11, and
C20 shop fronts to Nos 3, 5 and 9. Stucco over brick with
concealed roofs, brick party-wall stacks, and wrought- and
iron window guards and balcony. Double depth plan with right
side hallways.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, Nos 15 and 17 on basements and with attic
to No.31, 18 first-floor windows, 2 per house. Stucco
detailing includes; continuous first- and second-floor bands,
frieze, cornice and blocking course. 6/6 sashes where
original, taller to first floor, in plain reveals and with
sills. Entrances to right, mainly 5-panel doors (where
original), with overlights, Nos 15 and 17 with decorative
glazing bars and pediments on corbels. Shop fronts: No.1 has
off-centre glazed entrance between plate-glass windows with
slender pilasters, with frieze and cornice; No.11 has turned
pilasters and 2-pane front with frieze and cornice,
part-glazed door with overlight set back to right. Right
return has 3 first-floor windows; 6/6 sashes, second floor has
1 blind window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: No.3 has continuous first-floor balcony
with concentric-rod-and-circle motif; first-floor window
guards to Nos 7, 9, 15 and 17 have web motif pattern, and to
Nos 11 and 11A have Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion
motif. Area railings to Nos 15 and 17 have concave scrolled
lozenge motif. Between houses a short run of arrowhead
railings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.1 recorded as a draper's shop in 1892.
No.3 was registered as T James, butcher in 1892. No.11 was a
tailor's shop in 1892. Shown as laid out and some built on
Merrett's Map of 1834.
Part of a fine street of mostly 1830s and 1840s terrace
houses.


(Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham:
1975-1984: 27,34-5; Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of
Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9452721453

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