Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL AVENUE, Clifton
901-1/9/988 (South West side)
Nos.1 AND 3
and attached verandahs, front walls
and piers

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Early-mid C19. Render with limestone
dressings, brick party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and
basement; 3-window range.
A symmetrical front has 1-window entrance blocks set back at
each end and pedimented 4-window centre, with giant pilasters
to a moulded coping and low parapet, ramped up over the
pilasters. The side blocks have C20 doorways with margin
lights, inner semicircular-arched doorways with convex reeded
architraves, imposts and keys, and semicircular-arched blind
windows; No.3 has a late C19 canted 2-storey bay to the left
of a keyed semicircular-arched doorway. Plate-glass
ground-floor windows, first-floor French windows to timber
balconies have wrought-iron pointed-arched railings with
quatrefoils and 6/6-pane second-floor sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with a good open-well stair with
stick balusters, column newels and a ramped rail, top lit by a
round lantern; 6-panel doors and panelled shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron tented verandahs
with pointed-arched rails either side of the porch to No.1 and
decorative lighting bracket; front garden walls and rusticated
piers with ball finials.

Listing NGR: ST5758373288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513835

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)