Municipal Offices, Cheltenham

The west side of the Promenade is dominated by Cheltenham’s finest early nineteenth century terrace which was designed by George Underwood.

Originally known as Harward’s Buildings, after Samuel Harward, one of the developers of Sherborne Spa and Promenade.

In 1915 the Municipal Offices took over the five central houses and by 1958 had expanded to occupy thirteen of the nineteen houses in the terrace.

In the front of the photograph is the Long Garden with the statue of Edward Wilson who was born at 91 Montpellier Terrace in 1872 and died with Captain Scott in the ill-fated Antarctic expedition.