26, 28 AND 30, PROMENADE

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/733 (South East side) 05/05/72 Nos.26, 28 AND 30

GV II

Houses, now shops. c1800-40 with later alterations including conversion to shops pre-1845 and c1970s ground-floor shop front. Stucco over brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Replacement 2/2 and 1/1 sashes to first floor, with 4/8 sashes to second floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. Crowning cornice at right with low parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue from the Colonnade in the High Street to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel (qv), by 1826 it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walk on each side. Although originally on either side were 'rows of elegant houses,' by 1845 (when Rowe wrote his Cheltenham Guide, published in 1850) he noted that 'nearly the whole of the left-hand (SE) side .. is devoted to professional or business establishments.' The ground floors form a continuous commercial unit with No.32 (qv) at time of Review. (Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29,40; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide: Cheltenham: 1850-1969: 12).

Listing NGR: SO9491022435