43 Portland Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHELTENHAM

SO9522NW PORTLAND STREET 630-1/10/690 (East side) 05/05/72 No.43

II

Villa. c1830. Ashlar over brick (painted to side ranges) with concealed roof; brick stack to right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement; pedimented 3-window range. Ionic pilasters through ground and first floors, entablature and pediment; horizontal rustication drawn into voussoirs over ground-floor windows with first-floor bands above. Central entrance in architrave with Tuscan pilasters, architrave, frieze and cornice, within a 4-panel door with side-lights and overlight with lattice glazing bars and margin-lights. 1/1 replacement sashes throughout, those to first floor have tooled architraves. INTERIOR: dogleg staircase has alternate stick and embellished balusters with wreathed handrail. Plasterwork remains to hall.

HISTORICAL NOTE: probably shown on Merrett's 1834 Map. A fine pedimented temple front. (Merrett HS: Plan of the Town of Cheltenham: 1834-).







Listing NGR: SO9516422740

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0750 IOE Records taken by Lorna Freeman; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project