Numbers 5 To 10 And Attached Area Railings To Numbers 6 And 7

This is a terrace of six houses, numbered 5 to 10, and associated area railings to numbers 6 and 7, located on the north-west side of Oxford Street in Cheltenham. The terrace was built around 1820 to 1850, with later additions and alterations including additions and restoration work in the 1980s. The buildings are constructed of ashlar, now stuccoed except for numbers 7 and 8, over brick, with a slate roof, brick and stucco party-wall stacks (some renewed), and iron porches and railings. The houses have a double-depth plan, featuring interconnecting front and rear rooms and right-side stairhalls.

The terrace is two storeys high with basements, exhibiting nineteen first-floor windows (three per house, with four to the right). The left-hand bay is set back slightly. Architectural details include a first-floor band, a continuous frieze, a blocking course, and copings. Six-pane sashes are present throughout, set in plain reveals with sills. The front entrances have six-fielded-panel doors, some partly glazed, with fanlights. Most fanlights feature batwing-and-circle motif glazing bars, though the right-hand entrance has a 20th-century door in a solid porch with Doric pilasters at the corners, a low parapet with copings, and a glazed door with etched glass, sidelights, and an elliptical overlight. The rear of the building retains six-pane, eight-pane, and six-pane sashes between margin lights.

The interior retains original joinery and plasterwork, including panelled shutters to windows and dividing doors with reeded architraves incorporating fleurons at the angles. The porches to numbers 6 to 10 feature scrolled lozenge motifs on the uprights, with lattice or scroll friezes and glazed, lead tent roofs. Number 6 has arrowhead forecourt railings with urn finials on the stanchions, while number 7 has area railings with embellished rods and arrowhead railings beside the steps.