Numbers 11 To 16 And Attached Railings

A terrace of six houses, now shops and offices, built around 1810 to 1820, with later alterations including 20th-century shop fronts. The three houses on the left are set forward. The construction is stucco over brick, with a concealed roof and brick end and party-wall stacks. Iron balconies and railings are present.

The houses are mainly two storeys high, with three storeys on the left side, and include attics and basements, featuring 18 first-floor windows (three per house), with attics above numbers 12 and 13. The stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floors of numbers 11, 13, and 14, and rustication to the ground floors of numbers 15 and 16. A continuous first-floor band is surmounted by three Doric pilasters with sunk panels on the right end and between the houses. A second-floor band is present on the left, forming a crowning entablature and blocking course. Most windows are 6/6 sash windows, with a blind central window on the second floor of the left-hand house. The shop fronts to numbers 12, 13, and 14 feature bow windows with dentil friezes, the two on the left having multi-panes.

The entrances include steps leading to a 20th-century glazed door with a fanlight incorporating batwing and circular glazing bars; another 20th-century glazed door with an overlight; and six-fielded-panel doors, where original, with elliptically-arched overlights featuring decorative Gothic and radial glazing bars. Attic dormers are also present.

The interiors retain original joinery and plasterwork. Numbers 11 and 16 have a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. Embellished cornices with acanthus are also present; the interior of the other properties was not inspected.

Subsidiary features include arrowhead area railings to the four houses on the left, with bars and dog bars with urn finials stamped "W Wheeler" at numbers 11, 13, and 14. Individual balconies are located to most first- and second-floor windows, featuring a scrolled lozenge motif.

The house at number 15 was occupied by HS Merrett, the architect and surveyor to the Pittville Estate, in 1836. In 1850, the same house was occupied by Richard Low, an American and proprietor of the Cheltenham Photographic Institution. Numbers 12 to 16 were additionally listed on December 14, 1983.