Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON PARK, Clifton
901-1/8/800 (North side)
08/01/59 No.16
Dyrham Lodge

GV II

House, now offices. c1850. By Charles Underwood. Limestone
ashlar with lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth
plan. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, basement and attic;
3-window range.
A symmetrical front has shallow wings with clasping pilasters
to a frieze and dentil cornice, tall attic storey with cornice
and a balustrade with central panels; a banded ground floor to
the middle, first-floor string with blocks to sill band above.
Left-hand open distyle-in-antis Tuscan porch set at an angle,
has a flagged slate floor with marble insets, 3 niches, a
plaster ceiling with cornice and rose, and 2-leaf 6-panel
door. Ground-floor 3-light windows between subsidiary
pilasters, architraves to the rest, French windows to the
ground floor middle, 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-panes in the
attic. 1-window range right-hand return.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with fluted Ionic columns, a modillion
cornice and a coffered ceiling with rosettes, to a central
rear stair hall with a good stone open winder stair with
moulded soffit, cast-iron balusters and foliate newels, and a
curtail, with a large semicircular-arched stained-glass stair
light with panelled reveals; panelled reveals to 6-panel doors
on the ground floor, and panelled surrounds on the first,
cornices and panelled shutters.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 267).

Listing NGR: ST5729173494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569527

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings