Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/1/752 (North East side) 04/03/77 Eaton House and Glenavon and attached front garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN Glenavon and Eaton House)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. 1853. Limestone ashlar with ridge stacks and pantile and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has outer towers with attic storeys with clasping rusticated quoin strips, modillion cornices and panelled parapets, and similar strips flanking the middle windows to wide timber segmental pediments; cornices above each floor break out over the quoins, first-floor sill band, and a modillion cornice linking the pediments. The towers have open, keyed arches to tiled entrance lobbies with side niches, and panelled, semicircular-arched timber doorways with plate-glass fanlights and large 2-leaf 4-panel doors with lozenge panels in the lower ones. 3 matching ground-floor windows have 2/2-pane sashes with margin bars, and a blind one to the centre; first-floor windows have strapwork balconies with panelled dies, bowed to the towers, with 6/6-pane sashes; second-floor windows to the tower have architraves with ears and curved shoulders and segmental pediments, and square windows above with eared and shouldered surrounds and 3/3-pane sashes. The sides are rendered with a central tripartite stair light, and projecting 4 storey towers to the back with linked oculi to the attic. Rear elevation has an arcade of 16 semicircular-arched attic windows on square piers, and oculi at the ends. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared, coursed rubble walls to front garden, battered to the base with bracketed coping, ashlar piers and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. Part of a group of 4 imposing houses facing the Down. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 279).

Listing NGR: ST5666873906

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501044

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