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Latitude: 51.4535 / 51°27'12"N
Longitude: -2.615 / 2°36'54"W
OS Eastings: 357362
OS Northings: 172907
OS Grid: ST573729
Mapcode National: GBR C3K.LS
Mapcode Global: VH88M.MQDL
Plus Code: 9C3VF93M+CX
Entry Name: Beresford House and Attached Balustrade
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280500
English Heritage Legacy ID: 379229
ID on this website: 101280500
Location: Clifton Wood, Bristol, BS8
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Clifton Christ Church with Emmanuel
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton
901-1/14/770 (North side)
08/01/59 No.1
Beresford House and attached
balustrade
(Formerly Listed as:
CLIFTON HILL
(North side)
No.1
Beresford House)
GV II
Attached house. 1765. By Thomas Paty. Render with limestone
dressings, gable stacks and a pantile hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and
basement; 5-window range. Formerly a symmetrical front, now
with a mid C19 right-hand 2-storey canted bay, the middle 3
windows broken forward, plat band, cornice and parapet cut
through for 2 dormers. The doorway has a bracketed pediment,
stepped key to the architrave, 3-pane fanlight and 6-panel
door. Architraves to the windows, one semicircular-arched over
the doorway with 6/6-pane sash with thick glazing bars,
6/6-pane ground-floor sashes, plate-glass above. 6/6-pane
sashes to the rear. The bay has a cornice and plate-glass
sashes with margin panes. C20 dormers. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area balustrade.
Similar to Boyce's Buildings (qv), and the adjoining Prospect
House (qv), and probably like them originally with Gibbs
surrounds to the windows.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 203; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 202).
Listing NGR: ST5736272907
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