Description

BRISTOL

ST5873NW COTHAM ROAD, Cotham
901-1/4/1175 (North side)
04/03/77 Nos.19 AND 21
(Formerly Listed as:
COTHAM ROAD
(North side)
Nos.17-35 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1840. Limestone ashlar with rendered
sides, concrete tiled hipped roof. Double-depth plan.
Italianate style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 4-window
range.
A symmetrical front has projecting wings with ground-floor
bays, and entrances in the ends; a moulded plinth, banded
rustication on the basement and ground floor to an
entablature, paired first-floor pilasters to a bracketed
cornice and attic storey with a moulded coping. Open porches
at either end have semicircular arches, to 2-leaf 6-panel
doors in the sides of the houses.
The bays have tripartite windows with guilloche jambs and
mullions to 6/6-pane and flanking 2/2-pane sashes, below a
balustrade in front of similar first-floor windows with
console cornices. A stone verandah between the wings has wide
openings between attached columns and outer
semicircular-arched windows with margin bars, and railings
between, below a full-width balustraded balcony. French
windows to the verandah, first-floor windows have shouldered
architraves to 6/6-pane sashes, and outer tripartite attic
windows which break through the cornice.
The ashlar basement has incised voussoirs and cambered heads
to 6/6-pane sashes. The rear is similarly articulated to the
front but with less decoration. INTERIOR not inspected.
Nos 19-33 (qv) share a common plan and elevations, with
variations in the detailed decoration.

Listing NGR: ST5848373963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502845

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability