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SO9422NE
630-1/9/837

CHELTENHAM
ST JAMES'S SQUARE (North side)
Gibson House
Former Gas Nightclub

(Formerly Listed as Gas Nightclub, previously Listed as: ST JAMES'S SQUARE (North side) Premises occupied by Barnby Bendall and Co Ltd)

12/03/55

GV
II

Two houses, now nightclub. c1805 with C20 alterations to interior. Ashlar over brick with stucco over brick to left, concealed roof and iron balcony.

EXTERIOR: four storeys, six first-floor windows (3:3). That part to left recessed slightly. Ground floor has two inserted elliptically-arched recesses to left part, with C20 doors. To right, ground floor are three tall 6/6 sashes in wider and taller round-arched recesses forming arcade on pilasters. First-floor band. First floor has tall 6/9 sashes, those to left with fluted architraves and floating cornices, two to far right have frieze and stepped cornices on console brackets, and with pediment to second to right. Second-floor sill band. Second floor has 6/6 sashes. Third floor has 3/3 sashes with sills. All in plain reveals. Crowning frieze, cornice and blocking course.

Right return: four storeys, four first-floor windows and three-storey, three-window range set back slightly. Right end pilaster to full height. Ground floor has off-centre right entrance: C20 glazed doors with fanlight in wide, round-arched opening; two 6/6 sashes and blind opening. First-floor sill band. Above entrance a 6/9 staircase sash, otherwise three blind openings. Second-floor sill band; outer blind windows and two 6/6 sashes. Third floor has blind outer windows and two 3/3 sashes. Entablature continues from front facade. Three-storey range has C20 glazing and glazed door. First floor has 6/9 sashes; first- and second-floor sill bands; cornice and blocking course.

INTERIOR: retains dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail to right part. Some original plasterwork remains.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: main range at right has first-floor balcony with rod-and-central-circle motif and half-circles to friezes. Ironwork a similar design to houses on St George's Place (qqv) and No.112 London Road (qv).

(Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 19).

Listing NGR: SO9452922570

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667458

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)