Description

BRISTOL

ST5775 CAMBRIDGE PARK, Redland
901-1/31/1696 (South East side)
03/04/77 Nos.7 AND 8
and attached walls and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
CAMBRIDGE PARK
Nos.1-14 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. 1865. By WH Hawtin. Limestone ashlar,
ridge and lateral stacks and concrete tile hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 2 storeys and
attic; 2-window range.
A symmetrical pair has the middle set forward, with
single-storey porches on the returns; banded ground floor to a
moulded band, first-floor sill band, frieze and cornice, and
full attic storey to overhanging eaves. The right-hand porch
has semicircular-arched doorway with key and imposts,
plate-glass fanlight and 2-panel door.
To the left the ground floor has been extended forward with a
tripartite window with eared architrave, console keys and
guilloche jambs, and single-storey end porch with large
consoles carved with flowers to a broken pediment containing a
shell, a left-hand window with scrolled key to architrave,
parapet with blind sections of circles and half-circles, and
steps up with a good globe lamp to the gableted pier; slender
octagonal stack to the side.
Canted bays to the middle have semicircular-arched windows
with keys and imposts, thin hoods curled up at the ends, and
paired brackets to cornice which is arched over the middle;
balustrade with circles and half-circles. Ground and
first-floor windows have architraves and sill blocks:
semicircular-arched outer ground-floor windows, segmental
above, tripartite to the middle with ears and a segmental hood
to the middle; similar flat-headed attic windows with raised
surrounds; 2/2-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden balustrades and
panelled, capped piers. One of a group of 7 matching houses, 3
of which differ in having projecting wings instead of centres.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 277).

Listing NGR: ST5763875236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497708

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)