Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON PARK, Clifton
901-1/8/796 (North side)
04/03/77 Nos.6 AND 7
Leny (6), and attached gateway and
front garden walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CLIFTON PARK
(North side)
Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1830. Limestone ashlar with external
and party wall stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan.
Tudor Gothic Revival style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and
attic; 2-window range.
A symmetrical front has projecting wings with small raised
gables, shallow first-floor and attic drip courses, moulded
parapet, blind windows to the party wall, and side entrances.
Shallow, canted outer 3-light bays have a wavy running
moulding below the parapet and Tudor-arched windows to
4/4-pane sashes, and similar arched windows to the attic
above; the rest have very shallow architraves, with 6/6-pane
sashes, 3/3-pane to the middle attic windows, some with
surviving Tudor-arched top panes.
Right-hand return has a central open porch, a Tudor-arched
doorway with a hoodmould, a pitched parapet with wavy
mouldings, to a Tudor-arched 2-leaf half-glazed door; above is
a shallow, gabled projection with a second-floor Tudor-arched
window, a right-hand bay has paired 4/4-pane sashes, and
left-hand external stack. Similar left-hand return has a
2-storey left-hand porch with cinquefoil-headed windows and
machicolated parapet, attached to a left-hand 2-storey bay
with mullion and transom windows and crenellated parapet.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached ashlar gateway to No.6 has a
semicircular-arched doorway with panelled surround, between
Jacobethan pilasters, and a cartouche inscribed LENY; rubble
front garden walls, panelled piers and railings with
fleur-de-lys heads.
The earliest of two fine pairs of Tudor Gothic villas; Nos 8 &
9 (qv) comprise a later but more ornate example.

Listing NGR: ST5715573477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501299

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)