Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE THE PROMENADE, Clifton
901-1/1/970 (South East side)
Merchant Hall and attached front
garden walls, piers and gates

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now club. 1868. By Popes and Bindon,
converted C20 for Merchant Venturers. Limestone ashlar and
pink sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, lateral and
party wall stacks, and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan.
Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range.
A symmetrical front with entrance porches set forward at the
ends, rusticated quoins, ground-floor cornice, and a deep,
bracketed cornice cut through by attic windows. Ashlar porches
have open semicircular arches and balustrades, with 2 similar
arched windows in the sides, and a semicircular-arched doorway
with fanlights; lower pavilions behind with hipped roofs.
Ashlar ground-floor has an arcade of semicircular-arched
windows, the middle one blind and set forward, with faceted
jambs, flat-headed first-floor windows with architraves, and
enlarged attic windows with eared architraves. The end
pavilions have paired semicircular-arched first-floor windows,
the ones above as the attic.
INTERIOR: former party walls removed, large central full-width
hall with a reset Imperial stair, and various fittings
imported from other houses.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls with 2
pairs of large gate piers with modillion cornices, and
wrought-iron gates.
Large and heavily decorated, on an important site and with
group value.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 279).

Listing NGR: ST5659273656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Merchant Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6818367

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