Description

BRISTOL

ST5773NW OAKFIELD ROAD, Clifton
901-1/2/897 (North side)
31/07/70 Nos.5 AND 7

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1845. Possibly by RS Pope. Limestone
ashlar with party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys,
basement and attic; 2-window range. A composed front has the
centre broken forward with side brackets to an attic storey,
banded ground floor, articulated by giant channelled pilasters
to coved capitals, an entablature, cornice and parapet.
Single-storey side entrance porches, of 2 storeys to No.7,
with pilasters to an entablature, and double 3-panel doors.
Tripartite windows with architraves and moulded cills,
first-floor stone balconies, to 6/6-pane flanked by 2/2-pane
sashes, and smaller second-floor windows with 4/4-pane flanked
by 2/2-pane sashes. 3/3-pane attic sashes set in shallow
recesses. The sides have semicircular-arched stair lights.
INTERIOR not inspected, but noted as having side dogleg
stairs, panelled doors and shutters, and cornices.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 273).

Listing NGR: ST5736473642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498005

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey