Description

BRISTOL

ST5673SE THE MALL, Clifton
901-1/7/1060 (North East side)
08/01/59 Nos.18 AND 20
including part of No.22
(Formerly Listed as:
THE MALL
(East side)
Nos.18, 20 AND 24-28 (Even))

GV II

Part of assembly rooms, now pair of attached houses and shops.
1806-9. By Francis Greenway. Interior by Joseph Kay. Altered
1860 by JH Hirst. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and
slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan.
3 storeys; 8-window range. 1860 ashlar shop fronts project
beneath plain 1809 upper floors with 1:2:2:3 windows; the
second and fourth sections are broken forward, a shallow bow
to the latter, with a thin cornice to the left and a deeper
one to the bow.
2 matching shop fronts have left-hand doorways in shallow
recesses with pilasters and semicircular arches with tall
keys, slate spandrels and doors set back, that to No.18 with
paired 6-panel doors beneath two 6/6-pane sashes. Right-hand
shallow canted bays have slender cast-iron columns with small
foliate capitals to 3 moulded semicircular arches with
elaborate carved keys and spandrels with flowers, and
plate-glass windows; dentil cornice and parapet with pierced
sections over the windows of small semicircles. The bow has
2/2-pane sashes, 6/6-pane sashes to the left, and 3/3-pane
second-floor sashes. Rear elevation has late C19 first-floor
window with stained glass leaded lights.
INTERIOR: No.20 has an arcade of 4 semicircular arches with
columns as the front, cornice all round and a coved ceiling.
No.18 has a deep balcony across rear of ground floor with a
wrought-iron railing. Part of the first floor is included in
No.22, The Clifton Club (qv).
Originally the right-hand wing of the Assembly Rooms,
consisting of a pair of houses with rusticated basements as
No.22 (qv), and doorways in the recessed sections.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 218; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 132).

Listing NGR: ST5696173082

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504922

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)