Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/8/1079 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-14 (Consecutive) Royal Promenade and attached front basement railings

GV II*

Terrace of 14 houses. 1845-53. By J Marmont. Limestone ashlar with lateral and party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A composed 'palace front' terrace has raised, projecting end and middle 6 houses, the middle 4 breaking forward again, with clasping rusticated pilasters to the corners to a deep bracketed cornice, and moulded coped attic. Banded ground floor to a cornice and continuous first-floor stone balcony on large scrolled brackets with a pierced balustrade, ground- and first-floor sill bands and second-floor plat band. Right-hand semicircular-arched doorways with eared architraves and large keys, to fanlights and 4-panel doors with roundels. Semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have shouldered architraves with faceted keys, set in raised panels, with aprons. Architraves to upper windows, set in raised panels with aprons on second floor; those in the central section have first-floor console dentil cornices, and second-floor semicircular heads with ears and shoulders with aprons; 2/2-pane sashes. The attic has a continuous semicircular-arched arcade with imposts, blind except for 3-light outer windows to each house. The middle section has a taller attic with windows set in recesses, 5 each side of a large central heraldic panel with lion and unicorn flanking a shield. The end houses have entrances in the returns: No.1 has a single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, projecting jambs and parapet, and 3-window range to the side, all blind; No.14 has a central 2-storey porch, windows as the front, with a balcony to the left-hand side, and blind attic arcade. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron balustrade. An advanced terrace design contemporary with Vyvian Terrace, but brought much more together to form the effect of a single palatial edifice. Well situated to the side of the square with a deep flagged pavement in front. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 260; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 51; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 166).

Listing NGR: ST5719673146

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