Nos. 1-21 Royal Parade And Attached Railings To Nos. 1, 3, 4 And 5

A terrace of 21 houses built between approximately 1845 and 1850, with attached railings to numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5. The buildings are now used as houses, hotels, and flats. They are numbered from right to left, and described accordingly. The construction is primarily brick, with ashlar facades, and slate roofs topped with party-wall brick stacks. The houses have double-depth plans, side stairwells, and service ranges at the rear.

The terrace is two storeys high with a basement, and numbers 18-21 and 6-12 also have an attic storey and a crowning entablature. The terrace slopes upwards, featuring a ramped, continuous dentil cornice above the first-floor windows. Numbers 19 and 21 have quoins, with number 19 projecting to the right. Numbers 13-17 have a central breakforward of three windows, with end quoins, while numbers 6-12 have a central breakforward of nine windows articulated by quoins. Numbers 1-5 have a central breakforward of three windows. All windows are set within tooled architraves; the ground-floor windows have cornices, with further detailing of acanthus cornices and pediments on numbers 18-21 and 6-12. Sills run throughout the first floor. Numbers 13-17 have a tooled first-floor band. Most windows are 2/2 sashes to the ground and first floors; the first floor of numbers 1-5 primarily retain original 6/6 sashes, except for number 2, which has taller 6/9 sashes. Several windows retain blind boxes. Basement sashes are 3/6, 6/6, and 8/8. The attic windows are mainly 6/6 sashes in tooled architraves.

The entrances at the right-hand end have flights of roll-edged steps leading to 2-panel doors, some glazed with overlights, recessed within the facades. Number 21 has a blind box around its entrance. The rear left return has a four-window range with 2/2 sashes on the ground and first floors, 6/6 sashes on the second floor, and one blind opening. The interior was not inspected.

Subsidiary features include railings along the sides of the steps to numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5. There is a continuous balcony to the ground floor of each house, featuring an acanthus scroll motif, based on a design by L.N. Cottingham. Number 11 has individual balconies to the first floor. Number 21 has a verandah to its left return. At the time of review, number 21 was unoccupied and somewhat dilapidated.

The land for the development was sold by the Skillicorne family in 1837. By 1843, Henry Davies described the site as previously pasture and orchard, but now containing two rows of houses, Royal Well and Bayshill Terrace. Verey considered the terrace "one of the most charming of all Cheltenham's terraces."