Description

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ST5773NE MELROSE PLACE, Clifton
901-1/3/889 (South side)
04/03/77 Nos.1-13 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 13 houses. c1840. Limestone ashlar, party wall
stacks and a double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Each of 3
storeys and basement; 2-window range.
A formal terrace in which the end and middle 3 houses project,
with a banded ground floor to a plat band, bracketed cornice
and parapet. Inner doorways have recessed jambs, imposts with
guttae and brackets, overlights and 2-panel doors. Tripartite
ground-floor windows in shallow recesses have 2/2-pane sashes,
architraves to upper 6/6-pane sashes, smaller on the second
floor. Wrought-iron balconies to the first-floor windows with
Greek Revival decoration.
The right end house has a 2-storey side block with doorway, a
small ground-floor window with margin panes and a first-floor
window with a wrought-iron basket balcony.
The left end 3-window house has additional late C19
decoration, a doorway with fluted consoles to a pediment, a
semicircular arch with fluted key and blind windows over the
doorway; the left return is a 3-window range with recessed
centre, consoles to the outer ground-floor windows and
balustrades above. INTERIOR not inspected. A late formal
terrace with decorative details in common with South Parade
(qv).

Listing NGR: ST5774873899

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276315

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)