Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
901-1/31/1793 (North West side)
Nos.33 AND 35
and attached front garden walls and
piers

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked
Lias rubble with limestone dressings, tile-hung second floor,
brick ridge and diagonally-set exterior stacks and tile hipped
and gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 2
storeys with attic; 2-window range.
A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting
end gables linked across the ground floor, and stone-framed
ground-floor windows. Carved doorcases have mullion
overlights, below entablatures with swag and side obelisk
finials to a steep pediment, and an elliptical-arched battened
2-leaf door.
Ground-floor mullion and transom windows, timber first-floor
windows have 6/1-pane upper and plate-glass lower sashes, and
second-floor casements project slightly on small brackets.
The gables have square ground-floor bays with Ipswich windows
and a balustrade; 3-light first-floor sashes, and tripartite
second-floor windows with a central Ipswich window in glazing
bars, below a shallow, jettied timber-framed gable. Between
the gables the ground floor has 3-light windows beneath a
parapet with a panel and swag; above it are paired first-floor
sashes including door panels, and hipped eaves dormers with
3-lights and a dentil cornice.
The rear elevation is flat with semicircular-arched stair
lights and a single-storey service block. INTERIOR not
inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers
with ball finials. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's Bedford
Park, 1881.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 396).

Listing NGR: ST5652275148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501478

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version