Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton
901-1/1/724 (North West side)
04/03/77 Nos.26 AND 27
and attached front basement area
railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
CANYNGE SQUARE
Nos.26-33 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Late 1840s. By Charles Underwood,
completed by W Gingell. Render with limestone dressings, party
wall stacks and slate and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth
plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and
attic; 2-window range.
A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings, deep cornice
and parapet, with single-storey outer porches to a deep
moulded band across the wings and linking with No.28 (qv).
Segmental-arched doorways with raised surrounds, plate-glass
overlights and 2-panel doors. Raised window surrounds with
sill blocks and small ears, tripartite inner ground-floor
windows, to 4/4-pane sashes, plate-glass on the first floor
and 2/2-pane sashes with margin panes to the second floor.
Rear elevation has a 4-window range, of first-floor
semicircular-arched windows with raised, keyed surrounds,
tripartite first-floor windows with 2/2-pane sashes, with a
cast-iron balcony with diagonal railings and Vitruvian scroll;
upper windows have raised, eared surrounds and 6/6-pane
sashes. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area spear-headed
cast-iron railings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Gingell completed the work after the original
speculators went bankrupt. Forms part of a quasi-terrace of 4
semi-detached pairs, intermediate between the composed terrace
of Nos 8-25 (qv), and the separate pairs along the W side of
the square, all by Underwood.
(Pollock A: Canynge Square: Bristol: 1986-).

Listing NGR: ST5686673625

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497716

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)