Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1797 (North West side) Nos.41 AND 43 and attached garden walls and piers with ball finials

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tilehanging, brick ridge and diagonally-set lateral stacks and tile hipped and gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting outer gables linked across the ground floor with stone-framed windows. Carved doorcases have terms flanking a mullion overlight and swan's neck pediment, to an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door. No.39 has a porte cochere with a hipped roof and Doric columns to the wall between the houses. The gables have bows with 5-light windows and a parapet; 3-light first-floor windows above have small pediments cutting a string, and 4-light second-floor windows with a central king mullion; finials flank a steep, segmental-pedimented gable with a keyed oculus. Between are 3-light ground-floor windows with a balcony above with ball finials; the upper storeys are set back with 3-light windows beneath coved eaves and large 4-light dormers. The lower floors have plate-glass casements with glazing bars above the transoms. The rear elevation has semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block. INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side lights, central hall with elliptical arch to dogleg staircase which has turned balusters and large newels, 5-panel doors, rear kitchens with built-in dressers, fireplaces and cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with ball finials. Stongly influenced by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).

Listing NGR: ST5648775128

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