Hawthorne And Briar Patch With Area Railings To Rear Of Number 103

Hawthorne and Briar Patch are two houses, originally one, of around 1820, situated on Montpellier Terrace in Cheltenham. The property is located on a prominent corner with Bath Road. The construction is ashlar facing brick, with concealed roof and ashlar stacks to the right and rear.

The house is three storeys with a basement, and features a wrought-iron balcony and railings to the sides of the steps. The exterior displays ashlar detailing including a first-floor band, a frieze and cornice over the first floor, a crowning frieze and cornice, and a blocking course. Two window bays are blind. The windows are mostly 6/6 sashes, with basement windows also matching this pattern. The right-hand side has an entrance with a flight of seven roll-edged steps leading to a four-columned Ionic porch with engaged pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, a modillion cornice, and a blocking course. The door is six-panelled, with two lower panels featuring an incised circle motif, a lattice frieze, an overlight, and side-lights. A range to the right has 6/6 sashes to the ground and first floors set in tooled architraves. The garden facade on the left return has a four-window range, with continuing floor bands and cornices, an end breakforward, and a blocking course with sunk panels over the end bays. Rear windows are also 6/6 sashes.

Inside No.103, the inner doorway features a part-glazed door with sidelights and a wide fanlight with batwing and circle glazing bars, set within a reeded doorcase. Original joinery, including panelled shutters, remains. The balcony over the porch has elongated scrolls with a central panel. The area railings to the rear are decorated with a scrolled lozenge motif.