Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL, Clifton 901-1/9/983 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.17 AND 18 and attached front walls and piers

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Pair of attached houses. c1823. Possibly by James Foster. Stucco with limestone dressings, party wall and lateral stacks, and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical front divided into 4 sections by thin lateral stacks forming pilasters, and a central reeded strip, with a pedimented centre, and moulded coping ramped up to the stacks. Doorways in the 3-window returns have C20 doors, No.17 has flanking single-storey C20 blocks, No.18 has a late C19 canopy. Outer semicircular-arched windows are blind above the ground floor; plate-glass sashes, some with margin panes, and 6/6-pane sashes. Matching rear elevation. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central lateral dogleg stair with stick balusters, column newels and banded rail; principal rooms divided by panelled segmental arches; reeded architraves to 6-panel doors, marble fireplaces and panelled shutters; basement kitchen range fire surrounds. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls and 2 pairs of rusticated gate piers. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 139).

Listing NGR: ST5759973312

External Links

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