11-14, NEW BOND STREET

Nos. 11-14 New Bond Street form a group of four terrace houses with shops, dating from around 1800, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs.

The terrace was designed as a unified scheme, incorporating a sweeping step up between Nos. 12 and 13, which returns at each end. The returns extend to New Bond Street Place on the left and to No. 1 Burton Street on the right, where the detailing continues. The roofs are plain ridge behind parapets. The main front has four storeys and two windows to each house, except for No. 11, which has one window. Most windows are glazing bar sashes, principally twelve-pane, set in plain reveals. No. 13 has a plain sash to the first floor, while No. 14 has plain lower sashes to the first and second floors, a feature repeated on the returns and the splay. The return to Burton Street has a blind bay, and a slight setback with windows. The other return, with a two-bay splay, has twelve-pane windows at each level, along with an original panelled door on the far left. First-floor end bays and the first returns at each end have shallow, sunk arched panels containing windows.

The ground floor fronts have been altered with shops. No. 11 has a poor, modern shopfront. No. 12 features a good shopfront dating from 1906, designed by Alfred J. Taylor, with central and side display windows of curved glass, recessed doors within small pilasters, a fascia, and cornice. Some remains of a cast iron balustrade with an open central panel and the number '12' at each end in early lettering are still present. The decorative mosaic paving has been altered, with lettering cut out and replaced by terrazzo. No. 13 has a modest 19th-century shopfront with an entablature, a panelled door to the step on the left, and a recessed door on the right, refitted in 1953 by Cheltenham Shopfitting Co. Ltd. No. 14 has a poor, modern front and returns to Burton Street, with a door on the splay. A frieze with a lintel and cornice runs above the second floor, continuing to a further cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet. Party walls are coped, with ashlar stacks to the right of each property, although these are cropped at No. 13 and to the rear of No. 14.

Interior inspections have been limited. At No. 11 (in 1986), original timber stairs with a mahogany rail and some Regency cornicing remain. In No. 13 (inspected in 1990), a reeded cornice is present in the hall. No. 11's shopfront was also designed by Alfred J. Taylor in 1906 with bronze framing and an island showcase. A drawing from 1932 illustrates this earlier shopfront.