Victoria House

Description

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

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NE ST JAMES'S SQUARE 630-1/9/833 (East side) 12/03/55 No.9 Victoria House

GV II

2 house, now offices. c1834-50. Stucco over brick with brick stacks and iron railings and balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (on basement at centre), 8 first-floor windows (arranged 1:6:1), with single storey, single bay range at right. End bays are set back. Stucco detailing to main range includes: plinth, full-height pilasters with sunk panels to ends and party-wall, first- and second-floor bands; crowning entablature. 6/6 sashes throughout, all in plain reveals and with sills, those to first floor in tooled architraves, those to ground floor have incised, elliptically-arched Greek key surrounds. Basement has 3/3 sashes with margin-lights. Entrances to outer bays: steps to part-glazed 4-panel and 6-panel doors with overlights, set back behind 2 Doric pillars with entablature which support overhang. Right return has 3 round-arched sashes, otherwise 6/6 sashes.

INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork, including 2 staircases with stick balusters with wreathed handrails. Otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: continuous first-floor balcony has Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade.







Listing NGR: SO9454622503

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0515 IOE Records taken by Brian L Crossley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Brian L Crossley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project