Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9421SE MONTPELLIER VILLAS
630-1/23/572 (West side)
14/12/83 No.21

GV II

Includes: No.9 SUFFOLK ROAD.
2 houses, now house and shop. c1824-8. Architect possibly John
Forbes. Stucco over brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing
includes first-floor band; crowning moulded string, frieze and
cornice with blocking course and copings. 8/8 sashes in plain
reveals and with sills, except to ground floor at left a shop
front with 3-light wooden mullion-and-transom window in
pilastered surround with frieze and end brackets and cornice.
Central entrance a part-glazed 4-panel door in plain reveals.
Left return: single bay. Ground floor has wide shop front with
similar surround and encompassing at right, set back, a
4-panel door with overlight. First floor has tripartite window
with 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and with cornice on acanthus
corbels. Crowning mouldings continue from main facade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the street was originally known as
Montpellier Retreat. Forbes was architect and surveyor to the
Pittville Estate c1835-6.
(Blake S: 'The Unfortunate Mr Forbes': Cheltenham Local
History Society Journal: 1989-: 7-27).

Listing NGR: SO9458321470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667010

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record