11-14, NEW BOND STREET

NEW BOND STREET (South side)

Nos.11-14 (Consec) 11/08/72

GV II

Four terrace houses with shops. c1800 with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Terrace designed as unit, with swept step up between Nos 12 and 13, and returned at each end, with single bay splay, to New Bond Street Place left, and to No.1 Burton Street (qv) right, where detail continued, roofs are plain ridge behind parapets. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, two windows each, except No.1, with one window, and slightly stepped forward, glazing bar sashes, principally twelve-pane in plain reveals. No.13 has plain sash to first floor. No.14 has plain lower sash to first and second floors, this repeated also to splay and return. Return to Burton Street has blind bay, and to slight set back with windows. Opposite end splay and two-bay return have twelve-pane at each level, and original panelled door to far left. First floor end bays, and first returned at each end have shallow sunk arched panel containing the window. Ground floor No.11 has poor C20 shopfront. No.12 has good 1906 front by Alfred J. Taylor with central and side display windows to deep curved glass quadrants and recessed doors, in small pilasters, with fascia and cornice, and remains of cast iron crest balustrade with open central panel and `No12' at each end in early lettering. Decorative mosaic paving, lettering cut out and replaced by terrazzo. No.13 has modest C19 pilaster shopfront with entablature, with panelled door to step, left, recessed door, right. New shopfront by Cheltenham Shopfitting Co. Ltd 1953. No.14 has poor C20 front, returned to Burton Street, with door on splay. Frieze with lintel and cornice cover front and returns above second floor, with further cornice, with blocking course and parapet, to attic. Party divisions are coped, with ashlar stacks to right of each property, but cropped to No.13, and to rear of No.14. INTERIORS: Not inspected, except No. 11 (in 1986): the original timber stairs with mahogany rail and some Regency cornicing remains in situ, but little else. No. 13 (inspected 1990) has its reeded cornice in the hall, but little else is in situ. HISTORY: No. 11's shopfront was by Alfred J. Taylor 1906, and a drawing in 1932 shows the shopfront with bronze framing with an island showcase to the left.

Listing NGR: ST7499864940