Description

BRISTOL

ST5673SE WEST MALL, Clifton 901-1/7/1092 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.14-34 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST MALL Nos.14-34 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 20 houses. c1843. By T Foster and W Oakley. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and slate and pantile double-pile roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style with Greek Revival details. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range, No.34 has 1 window to the left. A stepped terrace has a banded ground floor to a plat band, giant pilasters to a frieze and overlapping cornice, and coped attic storey. Right-hand doorways have battered recessed surrounds and raised lintels to overlights with 3 round and margin panes, and 8-panel doors with roundels, Nos 14-22 the upper 6 panels are raised. No.4 has 1 window to the left of the doorway, and paired pilasters to the end. 6/6-pane sashes and 3/6-panes to the attic. Good contemporary stone first-floor balconies on cast-iron brackets have cast-iron pedimented lattice sections separated by panels with anthemion arched tops, cobweb spandrels and arrow braces. Steps down to basement areas, basement doors, and service cellars accessed though pavement. Rear elevations have large lunette stair windows. INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by a flat arch with guilloche side panels, from an open stone dogleg stair with decorated cast-iron balusters and wreathed rail, the upper numbers have timber stairs; stone basement stair flight with wrought-iron railings; first-floor front room has good anthemion cornices and marble fire surround with attached Ionic columns; 6-panel doors and panelled shutters; basement rooms have semicircular-arched recesses and an arched passage to the cellars, which extend out under the road. The lower houses were supplied from one of the Clifton springs, and have stone sinks in the basements with hand pumps. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron bud-headed basement area railings and gates. Forms an important group with the matching Nos 1-31 Caledonia Place (qv) opposite, and with Nos 1-14 West Mall (qv) and Nos 32-44 Caledonia Place (qv) is a very good, and for Clifton uniquely formal, planned square. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 229).

Listing NGR: ST5675473040

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