Numbers 70 To 80 And Attached Railings To Number 74 With Wall, Piers And Railings To Number 80

This is a terrace of six houses, numbered 70 to 80, built around 1820 to 1850. The terrace is located on the north side of Albion Street, Cheltenham, and includes attached railings to number 74 and a wall, piers, and railings to number 80. The houses have ashlar facades with concealed roofs. They are three storeys high with basements, featuring a total of 18 first-floor windows (3 per house), and a two-storey porch set back to the right return. Rustication is visible on the ground floor, with details drawn into the voussoirs above the openings and a continuous sill band on the first floor. Cornices are present on houses 74 to 80. The windows are primarily 6/6 sash windows, with some 1/1 sashes, and taller windows on the ground floor. The basement windows are 3/3 and 6/6 sashes. All windows are in plain reveals with sills on the ground and second floors. Flights of steps lead to entrances, which have 3- and 6-fielded-panel doors, lattice friezes, and fanlights, some with decorative glazing. The right return has blind openings. The interior of the houses has not been inspected. Subsidiary features include flattened lancet railings with urn finials to the sides of the steps and forecourt railings to number 74. Number 80 has an attached wall with octagonal piers, shaped capping and finials, a gate with fleurs-de-lys bars and dog-bars, and flattened lancet railings. Individual first-floor balconies are present on houses 70, 76, and 78, featuring rod with flower motifs and lattice friezes. Window guards are present on the ground floor of number 78, and number 74 retains its boot scraper.