Numbers 5 To 11 And 15 To 19 And Atttached Railings To Numbers 5 And 9

Numbers 5 to 11 and 15 to 19, along with attached railings to numbers 5 and 9, form a terrace of seven houses built around 1835. The houses are constructed with ashlar facing brick, and have a concealed roof. They possess wrought-iron window-guards and railings.

The houses are three storeys high, with a basement, and feature 18 first-floor windows, averaging three windows per house. There is an off-centre breakforward of five windows to the right. Architectural detailing includes horizontal rustication on the ground floor, a first-floor band, and Doric pilasters (at the ends and between windows) to the end three-window ranges. An Ionic pilaster is present between windows of the breakforward. A continuous architrave, frieze, cornice, and blocking course run along the facade. Mostly original 6/6 sash windows are present, with taller windows on the first floor and tooled architraves to those windows. Ground-floor windows (excluding the two outer houses) are tripartite with 6/6 or 2/2 between 2/2 sashes, again where original. Basements contain some 3/3 sash windows.

Flights of steps with roll-edged details lead to mainly 4-panel doors with sidelights and overlights. The end entrances are set back within single-storey porches featuring Doric pilasters, a frieze, cornice, and a low parapet with a central panel. Return facades incorporate end pilasters and a central slight recess with a pediment. The interior of the properties has not been inspected.

Subsidiary features include lattice-motif window guards, a window box with a scroll motif to number 11, an X-motif to the area railings on the left, and embellished rods to the railings on either side of the steps leading to number 9.

Painswick Road was laid out by Charles Baker to connect Cheltenham with Painswick following an Act of 1820.