Description

BRISTOL

ST5773NW PEMBROKE ROAD, Clifton 901-1/2/916 (East side) 31/07/70 Nos.60 AND 62

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1850. Limestone ashlar with party wall and lateral ashlar stacks and slate and concrete tile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Square pavilions with attics and deep overhanging eaves to pyramidal roofs frame a recessed centre, with a banded ground floor, sill bands, frieze and cornice, and banded attic storey with stone eaves brackets to the front. A stone verandah to the middle has square columns with wrought-iron spandrels to a frieze and balustrade with cast-iron sections; first-floor above is divided into 4 by pilasters, the middle pair broken forward to a pediment. Single-storey porches to the right-hand house with 3 side windows, with paired pilasters to an entablature and a semicircular-arched doorway with a 2-leaf 2-panel door. Semicircular-arched windows have thin hoodmoulds: pavilions have triple outer ground-floor windows, paired above with a stone balcony, and triple flat-headed attic windows. 2 French windows to the verandah, and 4 first-floor windows; sashes with a horizontal glazing bar. INTERIOR: central stair hall with a large open-well stair with turned balusters and curtail, 6-panel doors, cornices and panelled shutters. A particularly well composed pair showing the Italianate style '...in its most genial and fastidious' (Gomme). Part of a group with Nos 64 & 66 (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 283).

Listing NGR: ST5732473796

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