Numbers 5 And 6 And Attached Railings

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NE WELL WALK 630-1/9/980 (West side) 05/05/72 Nos.5 AND 6 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WELL WALK Nos.5, 6 AND 7)

GV II

House, possibly 2 houses, now restaurant and attached railings. c1776-1799 with later additions and alterations, including c1850s and late C20 shop fronts; c1980s skylight windows to attics. Stucco over brick with artificial slate roof and brick right end stack and iron railings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement with attic, 2 first-floor windows. First floor has 2 canted bay windows with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, that to right continues from ground floor. Second floor has two 4/4 sashes in plain reveals and with sills. Ground floor has steps to 2 central entrances, a part-glazed door (at left) and a 6-panel door, the upper 4 panels glazed (at right). To left a tall canted bay with multi-pane glazing and frieze; to right a canted bay with multi-pane glazing and frieze. To entrances and left part are fluted pilasters with fleurons. Basement at right has double doors, part-glazed. Raised and coped gable end to right with kneeler. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have stick balusters with wreathed handrail. Area railings renewed. HISTORICAL NOTE: HS Merrett, architect and surveyor to the Pittville Estate (1835-6) lived at No.6 in 1835. Well Walk (or Old Well Walk as it was known in the C19) was laid out by Andrews, the town surveyor, in 1743 to designs supplied by Norborne Berkeley, as a long avenue of elms extending for over 900 yards past Henry Skillicorne's original Pump Room and Well to the lower part of what is now Bayshill Road. As such this Walk, with its C18 houses, is an important survival of the C18 spa town development and frames one of the main entrance ways to the Parish Church of St Mary, Church Street (qv). Forms a group with No.7 Well Walk (qv) and Bank House, Nos 45 and 47 Clarence Street (qv). (Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: Blake S: Henry Merrett's Plan of Cheltenham: 1983-; Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 34).

Listing NGR: SO9476822507