Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE DOVER PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/845 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) and attached basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: DOVER PLACE Nos.1-11 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) Dover Cottages DOVER PLACE Clifton. Terrace of 11 houses. Dated 1863 by deeds. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Classical terrace with Gothic-style fenestration. 3 storeys and triple basement; 2-window range. Terrace with ramped centre to parapet, each house has 2 full-height raised sections containing the openings, a moulded coping that breaks forward over these, with the ground floor banded in between to a string. Left-hand doorways with trefoil heads, fanlights with round lights, and 4-panel doors with rounded tops to glazed upper panels. Semicircular-arched windows have vermiculated spandrel panels and plain surrounds with shoulders; torus-moulded frames have 3 semicircular lights to the ground floor and 2 to the upper floors, with circular upper lights set between them. Plate-glass windows. Nos 9 & 10 have right-hand doorways, No.11 has a 2-storey porch set in front with side doorway. Rear elevation has 2-storey canted oriel; lower 2 basement storeys form separate houses with doorways to the upper floors linked by a raised path. INTERIOR: upper houses have an entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch on corbels, to a lateral open dogleg stair with turned balusters; 6-panel doors, panelled shutters and cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed cast-iron basement area railings. Built on the side of a quarry and unusually using the fall in ground to increase accommodation. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 259).

Listing NGR: ST5765373137

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