Description

BRISTOL

ST5775 DURDHAM PARK, Redland
901-1/31/1705 (South West side)
04/03/77 Nos.27 AND 29
and attached walls and piers

II

Pair of attached houses. c1850. Limestone ashlar with ashlar
lateral and ridge and lateral stacks and pantile hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Italianate style.
Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A
symmetrical pair has projecting outer wings, entrance porches
in the returns, a banded ground floor to a plat band, paired
upper pilasters to a frieze and cornice, attic storey with
pilasters to corner pedimented blocks and parapet. Porches
with pilasters, and steps with sinouous interlocking
balustrade; that to No.27 faces the road, with a canopy on
wrought-iron brackets, 3-panel door and stained-glass
overlight, and to No.29 with a C20 doorway with a circular
glazed panel.
Outer bays have segmental-arched basement windows and
tripartite first-floor windows with tripartite windows,
cornice and balustrade. Tripartite semicircular-arched windows
above have console cornices; attic windows with scrolled
shoulders, and a carved pediment above. Between the wings is a
projecting ground floor with paired tripartite windows, stone
to the right with a balustrade and timber to the left. 4
first-floor windows have architraves and raised cornices; the
attic has triple semicircular-arched panels to the left, and a
raised parapet to 2 paired windows with plate-glass sashes to
the right. 2/2-pane sashes with margin bars. Lateral stacks
have paired semicircular-arched panels and cornices.
Ashlar rear elevation has segmental-arched stair windows, with
stained glass to No.27. Late C19 conservatory has a central
glazed gable with barge-boards.
INTERIOR: lobby divided by an elliptical arch to a large,
tiled stair hall, with an open dogleg stair with cast-iron
balusters and curtail and a modillion cornice; good cornices
of fruit; architraves to doorways with consoles and cornices,
6-panel doors, and panelled shutters; fireplaces, with Ionic
columns.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared rubble walls extend
along the road for approx 40m, with panelled limestone piers.
A similar design to numerous listed houses by George Gay and
Charles Underwood in Tyndall's Park and Clifton.

Listing NGR: ST5739275179

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497860

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