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Melrose Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4636 / 51°27'48"N

Longitude: -2.6078 / 2°36'28"W

OS Eastings: 357870

OS Northings: 174020

OS Grid: ST578740

Mapcode National: GBR C5G.66

Mapcode Global: VH88M.RG6W

Plus Code: 9C3VF97R+CV

Entry Name: Melrose Cottages

Listing Date: 4 March 1977

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1202169

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379418

ID on this website: 101202169

Location: Victoria Park, Bristol, BS6

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton Down

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Cotham St Saviour with St Mary and St Paul, Clifton

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

ST5774 COTHAM HILL, Cotham 901-1/34/1157 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.39-45 (Odd) Melrose Cottages

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. 1843-4. Probably by George Gay. Rendered with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 2 storeys and basement; 2 windows. A composed terrace of 2 handed pairs with pilasters framing outer doorways and to party walls, frieze, cornice and parapet, ramped up at the ends and centre. Steps up to outer doorways which have paired pilasters to an entablature, overlights with margin bars, No.45 with a lantern, and 2-panel doors. Large ground-floor windows have pilasters to an entablature and 10/10-pane sashes, architraves to second floor 6/6-pane sashes, smaller over the doors with panelled aprons; basement sashes. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central stair hall with open-well stair with stick balusters, urn newels, a ramped rail, and a small room between the stair and the party wall; stone fireplaces with fluted sides and roundels, with baskets with Greek Revival decoration, cornices with palmettes, 6-panel doors, panelled shutters. Possibly one of Gay's early terraces, featuring characteristic details such as paired pilasters and raised lintels.

Listing NGR: ST5787074020

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