Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE WETHERELL PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/1107 (South West side) 04/03/77 No.7 and attached garden railings (Formerly Listed as: WETHERALL PLACE No.7)

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House. 1860. By JA Hansom. For himself. Brick with black brick diaper patterning and limestone dressings, brick external and gable stacks, and a tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. Double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A near-symmetrical front with plinth, first-floor drip course, moulded eaves and coped left-hand gable; the left-hand return has a lower wing extending to a rear gable, with a weathered band to the ground floor rising over a left-of-centre doorway, and either side of the external gable stack. The doorway has a 4-centre arch with label mould to diamond stops and door with strap hinges. 2-light trefoil-headed first-floor window to the left of the stack, which has a quatrefoil panel inscribed JH/1860; the rear gable has a 2-centred arched cross window with Decorated tracery. The front has 2:3 ground-floor cross windows with Tudor-arched heads, and 2:1:2 first-floor windows, with metal casements; 2 small dormers with pitched roofs and trefoil barge-boards. Rendered right-hand gable and stack, with a verandah on cast-iron stanchions. Dated hoppers. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed railings to front area and garden along Frederick Place to the right for approx 30m. '...one of the few Victorian houses in Bristol that show a real understanding of Pugin's principles.' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 288).

Listing NGR: ST5762573270

External Links

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