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

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