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

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