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

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)