Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PRESTBURY ROAD
630-1/10/695 (North side)
08/06/83 Nos.6-16 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of 6 shops with flats over. 1830s: No.6 1833-4, Nos
8-16 1839-40; with later C19 and C20 additions and alterations
to ground floor shop fronts. Stucco over brick with slate
roofs and brick and stucco end and party-wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to left otherwise 2 storeys, 17+1
first-floor windows (3 to each house, that to right on curve).
Right end curved on plan. Second and right end buildings break
forwards. First-floor band. Crowning entablature except to
right and left; low parapet and copings throughout. 6/6 sashes
where original, all in plain reveals, those to right with
sills. Shop fronts, (from left): late C19 frontage with
central entrance a part-glazed door with fanlight and carved
decoration in the spandrels with pilastered architrave,
between 2-light, round-arched windows with fluted,
half-columnar mullions with foliate capitals. Two shopfronts
c1970s. No.12 has end pilasters, entrance a part-glazed
off-centre recessed door, window to right has fluted
half-columnar mullions. No.16 has original shop front which
follows curve of building, with fluted mullions, end pilaster
with acanthus corbels, frieze and cornice, off-centre glazed
entrance has ornate panel. Left return: No.6 has a 3-storey
bow facing Portland Street with similar arcaded shop-front and
a 2-bay extension to left.
INTERIOR: No.6: photos dated 1991 show embellished frieze and
cornice with anthemion to coving and grape frieze to ceiling;
central rose.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Originally known as Leamington Place. No.6
was occupied as a chemist's shop by 1839, this row of 6 shops
being the only commercial premises allowed on the Pittville
Estate.
(Blake S: Pittville: 1824-1860: Cheltenham: 1988-: 73-74).

Listing NGR: SO9540122900

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667227

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)