Numbers 81 to 89 and Attached Area Railings to Numbers 81,83,87 and 89 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Terrace. 4 related planning applications.
Numbers 81 to 89 and Attached Area Railings to Numbers 81,83,87 and 89
- WRENN ID
- pitched-ashlar-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Numbers 81 to 89 and Attached Area Railings to Numbers 81,83,87 and 89, London Road, GL52 6HL
- OS grid reference
- SO 956 216
- Coordinates
- 51.89345, -2.06439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of five houses, now flats, numbered 81 to 89, along with attached area railings to numbers 81, 83, 87, and 89, was built around 1820 to 1850. The houses are stucco-faced over brick, although number 81 has a roughcast finish. The roofs are slate, with stucco party-wall stacks.
The terrace has three storeys above basements, originally featuring 10 first-floor windows (two per house). The stucco detailing includes ground-floor rustication and a first-floor band to number 81; a cornice to numbers 83, 87, and 89. Numbers 83 and 89 have parapet walls that ramp up at the ends with copings, while the remaining houses have a lower parapet with copings. The original windows are 6/6 sashes, taller on the first floor, with 3/3 sashes above. All are set in plain reveals and have sills.
Entrances consist of two pairs of 6-panel doors, some part-glazed. The entrance to number 81 has a porch with round-arched openings to the front and sides, supported by Doric pillars.
The wrought-iron area railings have urn finials to the stanchions. First-floor window guards to numbers 83, 85, and 89 are embellished with rods, a lattice frieze, and a central scrolled panel. A window box at number 85 has a scroll motif, and the balcony to number 81 features a "particularly fine" design using rod-and-concentric circle motifs with a central roundel. The porches, except for the one at number 81, have scroll and lozenge motifs, and the left-hand pair retains tent roofs. The railings to number 85 have been renewed.
Local climate
Numbers 81 to 89 and Attached Area Railings to Numbers 81,83,87 and 89 receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 48 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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