Numbers 73 And 75 And Attached Area Railings To Right

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER TERRACE 630-1/18/555 (South side) 05/05/72 Nos.73 AND 75 and attached area railings to No.73

GV II

Pair of terraced houses and attached area railings to right. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1800-20. Ashlar over brick with hipped slate roof, 2 tall stucco party-wall stacks; iron window boxes and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 6 first-floor windows (3:3). End window-bays break forwards. Windows: ground floor has casements, first floor at left has tall 6-pane casements, those to right are C20 replacements; all in plain reveals, those to left have blind boxes. Basements have 8/8 sashes. End entrances: elliptically-arched openings on imposts have recessed 6-fielded-panel doors with side-lights and overlights. Crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including panelled shutters to some windows, otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: window guards to first floor have arcade to left and rod and lozenge motif to right. No.73 has Cottingham-type scroll motif to area railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: reputed to have been built as 2 gardener's cottages to Lord Suffolk's house, this would indicate an earlier date as the Duke died in 1812. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 43).

Listing NGR: SO9465821655