Oxford Parade And Attached Railings

A terrace of six houses, now residential properties and flats, was built between approximately 1780 and 1820 in Cheltenham. The buildings are constructed of ashlar facing brick, with slate roofs where original, and brick party-wall stacks. Iron area railings, porches, verandahs, and balconies are also original features. The houses have a double-depth plan with service areas behind.

The three-storey terrace, with a basement and an attic to the right return, presents 18 first-floor windows (three per house); the central two houses slightly project. Architectural detailing includes first- and second-floor bands, a crowning frieze and cornice with a blocking course. Original windows are predominantly 6/6 sashes to the ground and first floors, with taller windows on the first floor. Second-floor windows are 3/3 sashes. Blind boxes remain at number 30. Six-panel doors, some part-glazed, lead to entrances on the right side, with a further entrance on the right return. The right return has mainly blind openings. An attic dormer window on the right return has a 2/2 sash.

Original joinery remains inside, including panelled shutters to some windows; otherwise, the interiors have not been inspected.

External features include spearhead iron area railings with urn finials to the stanchions, signed 'Marshall, Cheltenham'. Tent-roofed porches exist at numbers 26, 28, 32, and 34, featuring openwork friezes and scrolled lozenge motifs. First-floor balconies are present at numbers 26, 28, 32, and 34, with embellished rods. A concave lozenge motif balustrade and scrolled uprights characterize the first-floor verandah at number 30, while number 34 has scrolls. Tent hoods are above the second-floor windows at number 36. A two-storey porch and verandah feature on the right return, incorporating similar scrolled motifs. Railings along the front and sides of the steps are spearhead-shaped, with urn finials to the stanchions. Some original boot scrapers remain.