84 And 86, Promenade

A pair of terraced houses, now shops, were constructed around 1820 to 1840 in Cheltenham, with later additions and alterations. The houses, numbered 84 and 86, stand on the south-east side of The Promenade. They are ashlar faced, now stuccoed over brick, with a slate roof and tall brick end and party-wall stacks, the central stack being renewed. The rear elevation features red brick dressings.

The houses are double depth and three storeys high with attics, containing six first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes tooled architraves with decorative moulding to the first-floor windows and roll-moulding to the second-floor windows. A moulded first-floor band features small roundels on the left side and a first-floor sill band with projecting sills on feet. A crown and dentil entablature and blocking course complete the facade. The first and second floors retain 1/1 sash windows. Attic dormers have pediments, though the roof is otherwise concealed. The ground floor to the left has a shop front with tooled pilasters, roundels, a frieze, and a dentil cornice. The remainder of the ground floor has a later 20th-century shop front and entrances. The rear retains some original 2/2 horizontal-pane sashes with flat arches of rubbed brick.

Interior features include original plasterwork with an anthemion motif to the ground-floor cornice on the left, egg-and-dart cornices on the first floor, and a frieze with an anthemion motif to the cornice in the central room to the right. The hall contains a frieze with acanthus modillions and fleurons to the ground floor, with lilies to the frieze on the first and second floors. The narrow, open-well staircase from the first floor has chamfered stick balusters and a mahogany handrail.

The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue. Originally lined with "rows of elegant houses," by the mid-19th century the south-east side of the Promenade became increasingly occupied by professional and business establishments.