Cheltenham And Gloucester Building Society And Fine Fare

This building comprises former town houses, now an office and shop, dating to approximately 1730. Originally built as a single structure, the left-hand two bays (currently occupied by Fine Fare) have been recently refaced with yellow stone, which detracts from the overall appearance of the facade. The construction is of coursed and squared rubble stone with stone dressings, topped by a gabled slate roof with stone copings and a south-facing stone stack with a brick cap.

The building is three storeys and an attic, with five bays, the central bay slightly projecting. Rusticated quoins are present at the ends and central bay, along with moulded and eared architraves framing large keystones to the first-floor windows. The second-floor windows have plain moulded architraves, featuring brackets below the sills and aprons above. A moulded stone cornice runs along the top, with a plain stone course above. A band below the first-floor windows has been altered by the lengthening of two windows on the right and the removal of the aprons above the second-floor windows on the left during the recent refacing. A segmental-headed dormer window is visible in the attic, containing a two-light casement. The upper two floors have twelve-pane sash windows.

The central doorway has a moulded doorcase with a cinquepartite keystone that breaks into a pulvinated frieze, a pediment above, and two bolection-moulded panels at fanlight level. Modern shop front windows flank the doorway. The original design of numbers 11 and 12 reflects the Gibbsian Baroque style, reminiscent of nearby Ditchley Park, which was constructed in the 1720s.