Description

BRISTOL

ST315874 SOMERSET STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/35/1535 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.23, 24 AND 25 and attached basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET (South West side) Nos.23 AND 24) (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET No.25)

GV II

3 attached houses. c1780. Brick with limestone dressings, ashlar rear elevation, and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement, 2 storey side blocks; each of 4-window range. Nos 24 & 25 are a near-symmetrical handed pair with a linking block, No.23 to the right matches without the side block. Pilasters to a cornice and parapet. Pedimented doorcases on narrow brackets, to the right on Nos 23 & 25, and left of No.24, which has a rectangular overlight with decorative glazing bars, and 6-panel doors. Wide relieving arches over canted 3-light ground-floor bays, 2 storeys on No.25, with strings, sill bands and moulded copings; 9/9-pane sashes on No.25, 6/6-panes the rest. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes above the doorway of No.25. Full-height 3-light canted bays to the rear, entrance block to No.24 with semicircular-arched doorway to basement below a tripartite window and paired segmental-headed first-floor windows. Segmental-arched entrance and steps down to basement of No.25. INTERIOR: No.25, hall divided from the central stair well by a moulded semicircular arch with panelled reveals; a semicircular arch to the right-hand front room, which is one room deep; large stair-well with a good open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, column newels and a wreathed rail, with wainscotting; front bay has sash shutters, folding 2-panel shutters to the rear; 6-panel doors, wainscotting to a dado; good modillion cornice and ceiling rose and cast-iron grate with brass feet and replacement marble fireplace to the front ground-floor room. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron area railings curve up steps to the front doors. No.25 was listed 04.03.77. (Mellor P: A Kingsdown Collection: Bristol: 1987-).

Listing NGR: ST5886573932

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