Numbers 6 And 7 And Walls Adjoining

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE MONTPELLIER VILLAS 630-1/18/566 (East side) 03/12/82 Nos.6 AND 7 and walls adjoining (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELLIER VILLAS (East side) Nos.6-9 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses with walls adjoining. c1824-8, with later additions and alterations. Probably designed by John Forbes. Ashlar over brick, partly stuccoed at right, with slate roofs, tall rebuilt brick party-wall stacks. Double-depth plan with outer stairwells. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basements and with attics, 4 first-floor windows (2:2) with single-storey entrance bays set back to sides and lower walls adjoining. Ashlar detailing includes: first-floor band; crowning frieze and cornice with blocking course and, to right, copings. Entrance bays and side walls have moulded cornices. Ground and first floors have 6/6 sashes all in plain reveals, those to ground-floor in wider elliptically-arched recesses. Basements have 3/6 sashes where original; C20 door. Entrances: roll-edged steps to 4-raised-and-fielded-panel doors with overlights with margin-lights; first-floor band continues over; low parapet and copings. Attic roof dormers have casements. Further attic casements to returns in flattened gable ends, with copings. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: coped walls to either side approx 2m high and 1.5m long. HISTORICAL NOTE: the street was originally known as Montpellier Retreat. Forbes was architect and surveyor to the Pittville Estate, 1835-6. Walls abut No.5 (qv) to left and No.8 (qv) to right. (Blake S: 'The Unfortunate Mr Forbes': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1989-: 7-27).

Listing NGR: SO9467621581