22, 24 AND 26, CLARENCE STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a terrace of four houses, built around 1820-1830. Numbers 22, 24, and 26 Clarence Street, Cheltenham, now function as a bank and building society. Number 26 retains some original ground-floor features. The construction is primarily brick with stucco facades, concealed roof, and brick and stucco party-wall stacks. Iron window guards are present.

The terrace is three storeys high, displaying eight first-floor windows arranged in a 1:8:1 pattern. The building’s corners are curved on plan, and each has a window, with a two-window return to the right-hand side of number 26. Stucco decoration includes five three-quarter fluted Doric columns to number 26, extending to the return side, with two demarcating the entrance at the corner. These columns are surmounted by a continuous entablature that runs around the corners. A second-floor plat-band is interrupted by tall Doric pilasters, which extend through the first and second floors at the angles and in pairs to the party walls. The entablature includes a blocking course, and the windows on the first and second floors incorporate an incised ‘Greek-key’ motif. The first and second floors have 6/6 sash windows throughout, except for the angle windows, which are blind. The entrance to number 26 consists of two roll-edged steps, curved on plan, leading to a 20th-century door with a divided overlight. Raised ridges are present on the party walls. The left return side features two and four first-floor windows, with 6/6 sash windows and blind openings. There is a glazed ground-floor shop front.

The interior of the house was not inspected during the listing process. Subsidiary features include first-floor balconies to the main facade with a scroll motif and side panels with inverse teardrop and star motifs. The terrace appears on Merrett's Map of 1834.