Rotunda Buildings

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SO9421NW 630-1/17/546

CHELTENHAM MONTPELLIER STREET (East side) Rotunda Buildings

(Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER STREET (East side) Regency House)

05/05/72

GV II

Shops with offices over. c1820-1834 with later additions and alterations, including later C19 bow and shop fronts. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stacks to right.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, four first-floor windows arranged 3:1, including full height bow which breaks forwards to left. Stucco detailing includes pilasters with horizontal rustication to either side of bow through ground and first floors; windows have tooled architraves, that to second floor at right with corbelled feet; moulded second-floor sill band; crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course and copings. 6/6 sashes where original. First floor, central window to bow has floating segmental pediment. Entrance at right angle a double part-glazed door with overlight in round-arched surround with keystone which 'supports' bowed lower part of flying upper storey; further entrance to later C19 glazed shop-front curved on plan, with slender pilasters in bow, a central part-glazed door with dentil frieze and overlight. Further 6/6 sashes to left and right returns; left return has irregular fenestration with 6/6 sashes to upper stage, ground floor has shop front to left with plate-glass windows between slender mullions and carved decoration to the spandrels, canted into part-glazed door with lower panel, dentil frieze and swan-neck pediment and overlight.

Right return has three first-floor windows and to ground floor a shop front with tripartite window with ashlar mullions and tooled architrave, then a shop front with slender modillions and caps, and glazing canted into part-glazed door with dentil frieze.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: shown on Merrett's Map of 1834, but apparently without bow.

Forms a group with Nos 2-8 (even) Montpellier Street (qv). (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).

Listing NGR: SO9436921798