Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/1/758 (North East side) 04/03/77 Tellisford House and Trinmore and attached front garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN Trinmore and Tellisford)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. 1853. Built by William Baker. Squared sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, party wall and gable stacks and double-pile slate cross-gabled roof with bands of hexagonal slates. Double-depth plan. Jacobethan style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. A broadly symmetrical pair has recessed end entrance sections with kneelers to ogee gables and finials, and a heavy full-width ground-floor cornice. Entrances have rusticated square piers, with blocked columns set inside them to a raised lintel on carved brackets, and faceted panels each side; tiled lobbies have arched side windows with stained-glass margin panes, to doorways with Ionic 3/4 terms to semicircular arches, 5-light fanlights and 4-panel doors with lozenges in the lower ones. Mullion windows have surrounds with decorative curved sections to top, sides and bottom: ground-floor windows with transoms, those on the first floor with oval panels to aprons and raised cornices. Tellisford has a 3-window inner range including a central 2-storey, 3-light bow topped by a large curved parapet with a carved oval panel; Trinmore has a 2-window range, the left-hand windows in a large ogee gable set forward, with 3-light ground- and first-floor windows and a stone balcony on the first floor. The second-floor windows form half dormers with cornices and swan's neck pediments, breaking through a parapet with gableted dies. 2/2-pane sashes. The left return has a rear 4-storey square tower with machicolated overhanging crenellated parapet, and a first-floor canted oriel with moulded base and weathered top, and stained glass margin panes. The right return has a wide first-floor 6-light mullion window, and rear gable with an oculus. Rear has projecting wings with 2-storey canted ashlar bays, and keyed oculi. Stacks have raised panels separated by faceted squares. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared, coursed rubble walls extend approx 80m round the front garden, battered to the base with bracketed coping, ashlar piers with finials, and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. Part of a group of 4 imposing houses facing the Downs. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 279).

Listing NGR: ST5664573938

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