Numbers 3, 5 And 7 And Attached Area Railings

This is a terrace of three houses, now offices, located at Numbers 3, 5, and 7 Rodney Road, Cheltenham, built around 1820 to 1834 in three distinct phases. The houses are constructed of pinkish-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a concealed roof and a brick party-wall stack on the right-hand side. Wrought and cast iron balconies and railings are prominent features.

The three houses have four storeys above a basement. The facade features seven first-floor windows (arranged as 3:3:1), along with a two-storey narrow entrance bay on the right. The majority of the windows are 6/6 sashes, with taller proportions on the first floor. The ground floor incorporates two 6-pane French windows with overlights and margin lights on the left, a 4/4 sash window with margin lights in the centre, and tripartite windows in the right-hand bay, with 4/4 sashes flanking 2/2 sashes and cambered heads over each floor. There is one blind opening to the third floor, located in the second bay.

The entrances are as follows: a 5-panel door serves Number 7, a 6-panel double door with a fanlight featuring batwing-and-circle style glazing bars is found at Number 5, and a 4-panel door with sidelights and an overlight with decorative glazing bars sits within an elliptically-arched recess on the far right. A further set of double plank doors in a round-arched recess provides access to a passage below the sixth window. A round-arched opening between Numbers 3 and 5 provides access to the rear.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process. The property includes area arrowhead railings, and continuous balconies to the first floor featuring a Canterbury bell motif and circular panels. The balconies to the right have embellished rods with lattice and frieze detailing, while individual balconies to the ground floor and the first and second floors on the right have similar decorative rods. Ground floor balconies on the left also incorporate the Canterbury bell and embellished rod detailing.