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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498045

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