Montpellier Exchange

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SO9421NW 630-1/17/527

CHELTENHAM Montpellier Exchange

(Formerly listed as Barclay's Bank, MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE)

05/05/72

GV II Shops (bank at time of listing). 1843 with later alterations including mansard roof. Architect: possibly Samuel W Daukes and J Hamilton. Ashlar over brick with slate mansard roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with attic, six first floor windows. Ground floor has plinth; banded rustication surmounted by cornice; first floor windows have tooled architraves, frieze and cornice over first floor. Angles are chamfered. Left end and off-centre right entrances, double two-fielded-panel doors with overlights in tooled architraves, that to left in recess; further recess to fourth ground floor opening and at right end. Two 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, two 6/6 sashes. First floor has 6/9 sashes. Attic has 3/6 sashes. Returns are two windows deep, those to ground floor are 6/6 sashes in shared architrave; first floor has two 6/9 sashes to left and blind opening and 2/2 sash to left. 'MONTPELLIER EXCHANGE' carved to right return. Rounded angles to rear; rear retains 6/6 sashes.

INTERIOR: reputed to have narrow open-well staircase with stick balusters.

HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a block of three shops. This may have been designed by SW Daukes and J Hamilton who, c1844, were designing shops on Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier Street (qv). Occupies an important site at the junction of Montpellier Walk, Montpellier Terrace and Lansdown Road.

(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-; Blake S: 'The Building of the Montpellier Shops': Cheltenham Local History Society Journal: 1984-). Listing NGR: SO9439321811