Rodney Terrace And Attached Area Railings

Rodney Terrace is a terrace of 21 houses, now used as houses and offices, built around 1809-1820. The terrace is located on Rodney Road, Cheltenham, and was shown on the Post Office Map of 1820 and identified as Rodney Terrace on Merrett’s Map of 1834. The houses are constructed with stucco over brick, with slate roofs (a mansard roof to number 17), and brick party-wall stacks. They have attached cast- and wrought-iron railings and balconies. The houses are arranged with a double-depth plan and side hallways.

The houses are two storeys high with basements, and an attic to number 17. They have 63 first-floor windows (three per house). Architectural details include a first-floor band, an original continuous crowning frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. The original windows are mostly 6/6 sashes, with some 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes and 4/4 sashes with margin-lights; ground-floor windows are taller, and some have blind boxes. The entrances, originally on the right (the entrance to number 55 is now blocked), have flights of roll-edged steps leading to 6-fielded-panel doors with overlights, mostly with margin-lights. Basements have 6/6 sashes and doors with divided overlights, and the attic has roof dormers with 3/3 sashes.

Original joinery remains inside the houses, including panelled shutters to some windows, embellished architraves with an incised Greek key moulding and cornice, and a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail at number 51.

Area railings remain throughout the terrace. Numbers 15 and 17 have a web design on the balcony, likely supplied by the Carron Company. Otherwise, the railings feature an X-motif, stick balusters, and lancets with anthemion and urn finials to the stanchions. Lancet railings are on the sides of the steps. Many first-floor windows have individual balconies and window boxes featuring scrolled lozenge motifs, embellished rods with a central oval and scrolled lozenge patterns, and embellished road with scrolled lozenge motifs. Numbers 31, 33, and 35 also have window boxes to the ground floor. According to Verey, Rodney Terrace existed by 1832.