Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/767 (West side) 08/01/59 Rodney House and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN ROAD (West side) Rodney House)

GV II

House, now college. Late C18 with a C19 porch. Limestone ashlar, gable stacks and a slate double-pile roof. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range, with a 1-window left-hand porch. A symmetrical front has rusticated ground floor to a plat band, bracketed cornice and parapet, with swept coped gables. A left-hand full-width C19 entrance porch has a rusticated plinth, cornice and parapet, a central doorway with pilasters to a modillion cornice, panelled overlight and 6-panel door; pilasters to windows each side have horned 6/6-pane sashes. Plate-glass sashes to the front, with wrought-iron basket balconies to the first-floor (railings removed). INTERIOR: entrance hall with an oval lantern, elliptical arch to a stone central lateral dogleg winder stair with stick balusters, a curtail and cast-iron newel; reeded architraves and panelled doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached walls and spear-headed railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: ST5701173209

External Links

• Wikidata Q26497761

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2