Promenade House (Echo Office)

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE CLARENCE PARADE 630-1/13/255 (South East side) 12/03/55 Promenade House ('Echo' Office)

GV II

Villa, now offices. c1820-50. Brick with stucco facade and concealed roof; iron window guards. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays: 5 first-floor windows arranged 2:3:2. Part to left return is on basement. Outer pedimented bays break forward. Stucco detailing includes full-height fluted pilasters to ends of outer bays, architrave, frieze and cornice; windows in tooled architraves, those to ground floor with cornices. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Ground floor has stepped tripartite windows to outer bays: sashes with upper margin-lights. Central tetrastyle Tuscan portico with architrave and frieze with wreaths, cornice; within are renewed glazed doors. Left return of 8 first-floor windows (3:5). Ground floor has horizontal rustication to right part. First-floor band; crowning frieze and cornice. Windows are 1/1 sashes (some with margin-lights), 2/2 and 6/6 sashes; to far left are tripartite windows to ground and first floors in tooled surrounds, that to ground floor also has frieze and cornice, next window-bay has similar surrounds. Entrance to right part, steps to 5-panel door. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead window guards to basement. For rear of 'Echo' premises see Nos 1-6 Clarence Parade (qv).

Listing NGR: SO9479222404