Description

BRISTOL

ST5673SE LITFIELD PLACE, Clifton
901-1/7/884 (North side)
08/01/59 Nos.6 AND 7
and attached front basement area
railings, garden walls, piers and
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
LITFIELD PLACE, Clifton Down
Nos.6 AND 7)

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now offices. c1830. Possibly by
Charles Dyer. Converted late C20. Limestone ashlar with party
wall and lateral stacks, and slate roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys,
attic and basement; 4-window range.
A symmetrical pair has the 4-window central section stepped
forward with a banded ground floor, with pilasters above
between the windows, stepped at the corners and centre, with
blind lattice sections over the windows, cornice and parapet,
and reduced sections in front of dormers with iron railings.
Lower outer sections have rusticated ground floors,
first-floor strings and cornices, and cornices to attic
storeys; entrances with paired Tuscan columns to a cornice,
with plate-glass overlights and 2-leaf 6-panel doors.
Mid C20 single-storey end blocks with thin cornices.
Architraves, with console pediments to the windows over the
doorways, to 6/6-pane sashes; second-floor outer windows cut
through the cornices, with 2/2-pane horned sashes. The centre
has a full-width first-floor stone balcony with lattice steel
railings, and matching second-floor basket balconies.
INTERIOR: entrance lobby, with a rear open-well stair with
cast-iron splat balusters, curtail, foliate newel and wreathed
rail; basement stair has cast-iron stick balusters with beads;
fluted architraves to 6-panel doors, Greek Revival-style
plaster mouldings.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron basement area
railings; front garden rubble walls, capped, rendered ashlar
Pennant piers, spear-headed steel railings and 2-leaf gates.
Part of a group of fine villas extending W from Litfield
Place; Camp House (qv) also signed by Dyer.
(Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 142).

Listing NGR: ST5669773386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569504

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