Front Wall Only To Royscott House (Number 85 Right Part) Front Wall Only To The North Wing Of The Abc Cinema

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/763 (North West side) 08/01/82 Front wall only to Royscott House (No.85, right part) (Formerly Listed as: PROMENADE (North West side) Front wall only to the north wing of the ABC Cinema)

GV II

Front wall to office block. 1823, heavily restored in 1920s to balance right wing of Nos 47-83 (odd), Municipal Offices (qv), (1823). Stucco over brick with concealed roof and iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys on basement, 1:4:1 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes ground-floor rustication and cornices over 2nd and attic floors. End bays break forwards and are framed on upper floors by pilasters. First-floor windows have tooled architraves, those to ends in taller, wider, round-arched recesses. Between first and second floors a band of Greek key ornament. Mainly 6/6 sashes, with 3/3 sashes to third floor. Entrance at right, flight of steps to 4-panel door with sidelights with glazing bars and overlight with lozenge glazing. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous balcony to first floor. Included to complete the terrace Nos 47-83 (odd) (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined drive to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel qv) from the Colonnade in the High Street, by 1826 it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walk on each side. Buildings on the NW were the first to be developed. Completes the terrace Nos 47-83 (odd) Promenade (qv). (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Williams GA: Guide Book to Cheltenham: 1824-: 29).

Listing NGR: SO9468522221