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

II

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513760

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]