Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton
901-1/8/768 (East side)
04/03/77 Rodney Lodge

GV II

House, now college. c1770. Extended and altered 1884 by C
Hansom. Limestone ashlar and render, party wall stacks and a
slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style with
late Victorian alterations and extension. 3 storeys, 2-storey
wings; 8-window range.
Presumably a Palladian house, considerably altered: 3-window
centre has a projecting 1884 ground floor, C18 upper floors
with modillion cornice and parapet. Banded ground floor with a
balustrade, architrave to segmental-arched doorway with
overlight and 8-panel door, a segmental pediment on the
balustrade above, and carved consoles. Segmental arches over
paired ground-floor windows with eared architraves and keys.
First-floor windows have C19 architraves, moulded keys and
shallow segmental pediments to 4/4-pane sashes, and shallow
surrounds to 3/3-pane second-floor sashes.
The left-hand block has rusticated ground floor and rendered
first floor, a left-hand doorway with Gibbs surround,
overlight and 6-panel door, and 2 first-floor windows with
ashlar surrounds to 6/6-panes sashes. The C19 right-hand block
has first- and second-floor cornices, central doorway with
banded jambs and a deep bracketed canopy, Gibbs surrounds to
ground-floor windows, plain first-floor windows above and a
central elliptical-arched window with a pediment and
cartouche; plate-glass sashes. Rear elevation fairly unaltered
with a large central stair light with semicircular-arched
galzing bars.
INTERIOR: some C18 features, a dogleg winder stair in the
left-hand block with stick balusters and column newels, mostly
C19, including an open-well stair to the centre, 6-panel doors
and cornices; fine fireplaces have Wedgwood panels.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 263).

Listing NGR: ST5706473228

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501089

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)