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ALMA ROAD (See details for further address information)

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4639 / 51°27'49"N

Longitude: -2.6096 / 2°36'34"W

OS Eastings: 357750

OS Northings: 174055

OS Grid: ST577740

Mapcode National: GBR C4G.T2

Mapcode Global: VH88M.QG9M

Plus Code: 9C3VF97R+H5

Entry Name: ALMA ROAD (See details for further address information)

Listing Date: 16 March 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1203493

English Heritage Legacy ID: 378836

ID on this website: 101203493

Location: Clifton, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton Down

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton All Saints with St John

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5774NW ALMA ROAD, Clifton
901-1/34/684 (North side)
16/03/73 Nos.77-95 (Odd)
West Clifton Terrace

GV II

Includes: No.54 WHITELADIES ROAD Clifton.
Terrace of 10 houses, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar,
party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late
Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 1-window
range.
A formal composition has alternate houses stepping forward, a
banded ground floor to a drip, a dentil cornice and a low
parapet with small ears at the corners; the terrace is divided
by a first-floor recess containing a single Tuscan column in
antis with balustrades each side. Doorways set in shallow
recesses have overlights with margin panes and 6-panel doors.
Tripartite windows, smaller on the second floor, have 4/4-pane
flanked by 2/2-pane sashes. Balconies on cast-iron brackets to
Nos 83 & 89-93. No.95 has a mid C19 remodelled ground floor
and right return, with an arcade of semicircular arches with
foliate capitals to the outside, and cambered, keyed heads to
plate-glass sashes above. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to Nos 83 &
87-95; good carriage lamps to the doorways of Nos 83 & 85.
The central column is a unique, Mannerist device. The ground
floors to No.79 & 81 were removed for access to the car park
of Clifton Down shopping centre, c1985, and C20 shop fronts
replaced with ashlar.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 256).


Listing NGR: ST5775074055

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