5 And 6, St Georges Square

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 630-1/9/827 (South side) 05/05/72 Nos.5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (South side) Nos.3, 4 AND 5) (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (South side) No.6)

GV II

2 terraced houses, now flats. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1806 with later additions and alterations including those c1860-90 to No.5. Stucco over brick with concealed roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, that to right has attic, 4 first-floor windows (2:2). Stucco detailing includes stepped voussoirs over first- and second-floor windows to left, tooled architraves with keystones to ground- and first-floor windows to right; entrance to right house has Gibbs surround. Windows, to left house are 6/6 sashes to first floor, 3/6 sashes to second floor and canted bay with 1/1 sashes with lugs to ground floor. Right house has stepped triple round-arched window to ground floor with 1/1 sashes; first floor has tripartite sash with 1/1 sashes and 2/2 horizontal-pane sash; second floor has casements. Attic roof dormer has casements. Entrances both at right sides: to No 6 a round-arched opening with 6-fielded-panel door with lozenge motif to frieze and fanlight with circle and leaf motif, to No.5 a wide opening with two 4-panel doors, one part-glazed. Crowning cornice to right, copings to left. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: St George's Square was laid out from 1806 onwards on Rack Close field. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 112).

Listing NGR: SO9465322627