Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/1/723 (North East side) 04/03/77 Nos.8-25 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings, garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: CANYNGE SQUARE Nos.8-25 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 18 houses. c1845. By Charles Underwood. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and pantile double-pile roof, mansard to No.8. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 1-window range, Nos 15-18 have an attic storey. A composed terrace with 3-house end sections and 4-house centre section broken forward of lower intermediate sections; a banded ground floor to a moulded band, articulated above by pilasters to a wide frieze band, with bracketed cornice to projected sections, and moulded coping in between. Right-hand doorways, left-hand to Nos 23 & 24, have recessed jambs and rectangular overlights with margin panes; No.25 has the entrance in the coped left return, with a raised surround and cornice to a semicircular-arched doorway with a 3-pane fanlight and 2-pane door; central, 1-window range. Ground-floor windows in plain recesses; the end sections have upper windows set in semicircular-arched recesses, with first-floor raised cornices and plain pediments, to 8/8-pane sashes; second-floor windows originally with moulded cills extended each side, to 3/3-pane sashes; No.24 has French casements. Intermediate sections have architraves to upper windows, and second-floor sill bands. Central section has architraves, raised cornices to the first floor, second-floor sill band, and attic storey with pilaster and frieze bands and 3/3-pane sashes. First-floor balconies have cast-iron railings and brackets, except No.8, which has a plain pediment to the ground-floor window. INTERIOR: entrance hall with modillion cornice, divided by a semicircular arch from a central lateral dogleg stair with stick balusters, curtail and wreathed rail, cornices, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed basement area railings, front garden walls and spear-headed railings, and round-topped ashlar gate piers with oval panels; No.25 has a railed, flagged entrance area. Intermediate in mid C19 house development between the plain, late Georgian terrace of Nos 1-6 on the S side (qv), the quasi-terrace of linked pairs on the N side of the square, and the separate pairs opposite on the W side, all by Underwood. (Pollack A: Canynge Square: Bristol: 1986-).

Listing NGR: ST5689073594

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