Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON PARK, Clifton 901-1/8/798 (North side) 17/10/74 Nos.10 AND 11

GV II

Attached pair of houses. c1850. By Charles Underwood. Limestone ashlar, lateral and party wall stacks, roof not visible. L-shaped double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings, clasping pilasters to a frieze with rosettes, dentil cornice, and attic storey with a moulded coping; side entrances and a full right-hand elevation. Wings have 3-light bays with balustrades, ground-floor windows in recesses with rosettes to lintels, first-floor tripartite windows with subsidiary pilasters, architraves to middle windows, and incised surrounds to attic windows; sashes, some with horizontal bars. Left-hand late C20 concrete entrance block. Right-hand elevation has a symmetrical 3-window range set to the right-hand side, with pilasters and a central full-height 3-light bow. A long single-storey covered passage extends from the doorway, with a side arcade of 3:3:2 semicircular-arched windows separated by panelled pilasters, casements with fanlights and a balustrade of linked rings; an open porch at the end has a semicircular arch, side lunettes and clasping pilasters. INTERIOR not inspected. The detail and fenestration are closely modelled on Underwood's Worcester Terrace (qv), especially the end houses. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 164).

Listing NGR: ST5723373498

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