66, 68 AND 70, PROMENADE

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/741 (South East side) 05/05/72 Nos.66, 68 AND 70

GV II

House, now 2 shops. c1820-40 with later additions and alterations including conversion to shops probably pre-1845; c1980s shop fronts. Stucco over brick with hipped slate roof and stucco right end stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows (2 per house), with ranges to rear. Stucco detailing includes Doric pilasters to ends and between windows. Wide eaves. Replacement 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and tooled architraves, 3 to right are taller, sills. Ground floor has glazed shop fronts with glazed doors. Right return: 3 first-floor windows and two 2nd-floor windows, all 6/6 sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue from the Colonnade in the High Street to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Sherborne Spa (qv)), by 1826 it was a carriage drive with spacious gravelled walk on each side. Although originally on either side were 'rows of elegant houses,' by 1845 when Rowe wrote his Cheltenham Guide (published 1850) he noted that 'nearly the whole of the left-hand (SE) side .. is devoted to professional or business establishments'. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 29; Williams GA: Guide Book to Cheltenham: 1824-: 29; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide: Cheltenham: 1850-1969: 12).

Listing NGR: SO9483022302