Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE
630-1/13/752 (South East side)
12/03/55 Nos.102, 104 AND 106

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now shops. c1820-40 with c1930-50s
ground-floor shop fronts. Ashlar over brick with concealed
roof and right end stucco stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows (3 per house).
Central pedimented breakforward has Ionic columns to ends and
between windows, side ranges have Doric columns between
windows with crowning entablature. Ground floor projects and
has glazed shop fronts with banded pilasters between, dentil
cornice remains at right. Right return: low parapet ramped up
to centre forming feature with stack.
INTERIOR: photographs dated 1991 show upper stage of narrow
open-well staircase with embellished rods, otherwise not
inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a
tree-lined avenue from the Colonnade in the High Street to the
Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel (qv)), by 1826
it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walks on
either side. Although originally on either side were 'rows of
elegant houses,' by 1845 when Rowe wrote his Cheltenham Guide
(published 1850) he noted that 'nearly the whole of the
left-hand (SE) side .. is devoted to professional or business
establishments.'
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale
and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Williams GA: Guide
Book to Cheltenham: 1824-: 29; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham
Guide: Cheltenham: 1850-1969: 12).

Listing NGR: SO9475222186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667314

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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)