Description

BRISTOL

ST5773NW WORCESTER ROAD, Clifton
901-1/2/1145 (North side)
04/03/77 No.2
Clifton College (part)
(Formerly Listed as:
WORCESTER ROAD
No.2)

GV II

Attached house, now school. 1863. By Charles Hansom. Squared
Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, external
and ridge stacks, and a tiled roof with bands of round-nosed
tiles. Double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style.
2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. An asymmetrical
front has first-floor string, right-hand gabled wing and a
lower left-hand gable, with barge-boards. Central entrance
porch beside and level with the wing has a 2-centred arched
doorway with moulded chamfered jambs, tympanum with a trefoil
and carved panels with hunting horns, and a hoodmould with
square stops, to a 2-leaf 6-panel door; above is a pierced
parapet with quatrefoils.
2-centred arched windows have chamfered reveals and relieving
arches, to 2/2-pane sashes with horizontal bars: 2 paired
ground-floor windows to the left of the door and a single one
to the right, a triple first-floor left-hand window and paired
central and right-hand ones, paired left-hand attic windows
and a single one in the wing, beneath a small trefoil.
Steep gabled dormers woth casements to the centre and right
return, which has a gable containing cross stair windows.
Stacks have moulded ashlar tops. Left-hand single-storey
connecting range has 3 louvred dormers and a pent roof on an
open wooden verandah.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled with a replacement stair late
C20.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 288).

Listing NGR: ST5711373612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Clifton College at Wikipedia
• Clifton College official website
• Wikidata Q5133190

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