Numbers 1 To 4 And Attached Railings

This is a terrace of five houses, numbered 1 to 4, with an attached railing, located in Cheltenham. The buildings date from circa 1820 to 1850 and have undergone later alterations, including a shop front installed in the 1980s to numbers 16 and 17 Clarence Parade. The construction utilises stucco over brick, with brick party-wall stacks between numbers 1 and 2. The roof is concealed.

The plan is of a double-depth design, incorporating side stairhalls and full-height service ranges to the rear. The exterior presents three storeys with basements, and features fifteen first-floor windows (three per house). There are central and end breakforwards, with stucco detailing which includes rusticated ground floors with voussoirs above the openings (except on the right-hand side), first and second-floor bands, a crowning frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. The first and second floors have predominantly 6/6 sash windows; taller sashes are on the first floor. The ground floor has 1/1 sashes, and the basement windows are 3/6 and 6/6 sashes. Original roll-edged steps lead to 5-panel doors with side-lights and segmentally arched fanlights with batwing-type glazing bars; the exception is a glazed shop front with a glazed door on the right-hand side. The left return elevation has four plus one first-floor windows, most of which are blind; the others are 6/6 and 1/1 sashes with margin lights.

The interior retains original joinery and plasterwork. A narrow-open-well staircase is present in numbers 16 and 17 Clarence Parade, featuring stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. Plasterwork includes cornices with acanthus moulding. The remainder of the interior was not inspected.

Subsidiary features include first-floor verandahs with a rod-and-concentric-circle motif and scrolls to the uprights, on all but number 1. Area railings display fleurs-de-lys and the steps have the same detailing, except on the right-hand side. A stucco balcony on the left-hand side has a pierced balustrade.