Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/759 (West side) 08/01/59 Rodney Place, Nos.1-8 (Cons) and attached basement and front area railings (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN ROAD (West side) Rodney Place, Nos.1-9 (Consec))

GV II

Includes: No.2 PORTLAND STREET. Terrace of 9 houses. 1782-85. Probably by William Paty. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and pantile and slate mansard roofs. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. Terrace divided by pilasters to a cornice and parapet, plat and first-floor sill bands. Each house has a ground floor with a rusticated 3-window range, and plain 2-window range containing the doorways, to alternate sides: doorways have Doric columns, triglyphs to pediments, fanlights and 6-panel doors. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes to second floor, and varied dormers. No.1 has a late C19 doorway in the right return with large volute consoles to a modillion canopy, overlight and 2-panel door, with an extension behind. Wrought-iron basket balconies to first-floor of No.3. No.4 has a late C19 single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, a right-hand stone oriel with plain transoms and mullions, and a raised mansard. No.8 has a narrow mid C19 doorway with console cornice and a left-hand tripartite ground-floor window. INTERIOR: rear central stone open dogleg stairs with stick and cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail; winder attic stairs; panelled reveals to doors with 6 raised panels, panelled shutters, fireplaces, cornices and dados. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings with urn finials to basement areas, and to raised flagged front areas of Nos 6, 7 & 8. Nos 1-5 are set back behind a curved drive. One of the first Clifton Terraces after Boyce's Buildings (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 217; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 120).

Listing NGR: ST5703473122

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