Description

ST5872
901-1/42/1686

BRISTOL, Redcliffe,
REDCLIFFE PARADE WEST (South side),
Nos.3-13 (Consecutive) and attached front area railings and gates

(Formerly Listed as:
REDCLIFF PARADE (WEST)
Nos.1-13 (Consecutive))

04/03/77

GV II

Terrace of 11 houses, Nos 3-8 now one office. 1768-71. Stucco
with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks, slate and
pantile mansard and hipped roofs. Double-depth plan. Mid
Georgian style.
Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range.
Pilasters to a moulded parapet coping, coped gables and party
walls. Nos 4-7 have left-hand doorways, the rest on the right,
tall with architraves and consoles to cornices, some good
rectangular fanlights, and 6-panel doors. Steps down to a
basement dooorway. Plain keyed architraves to some 8/8-pane
sashes, the rest plate glass. C19 hipped dormers and large C20
4-light casement dormers. Nos 3-8 form one office, and the
doorways of Nos 5-7 have been made into windows. The entrance
to No.3 in the left return is blocked. The entrance to No.13
in the right return has steps to a C19 tented porch and a
semicircular-arched doorway; to the left is a full-height
canted ashlar bay with plat bands and a crenellated parapet,
and 6/6-pane sashes flanked by 4/4-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with wainscot, divided by a
semicircular arch with panelled soffit; a rear dogleg winder
stair with column-on-vase balusters, column newels and a
toadback rail, with a curved bay for the return with 2 niches;
the upper flights have an uncut string; 6-panel doors and
panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron front area railings and
gates have urn finials. HISTORICAL NOTE: Planned as half of a
pair of matching terraces, the eastern half was abandoned
after 2 houses, and completed to a different design. Painted
by Samuel Jackson 1825.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 216; The Bristol Landscape - The
Watercolours of Samuel Jackson: Bristol: 1986-: 18).

Listing NGR: ST5887572296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498087

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