Description

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ST5672NE WINDSOR TERRACE, Clifton 901-1/13/1139 (North side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-10 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: WINDSOR TERRACE Nos.1-10 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 10 houses. Retaining walls begun 1782 by William Watts, centre pair of design, probably by John Eveleigh, c1790, completed to a much reduced design by John Drew 1807. Limestone ashlar and render, party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A massive raised retaining wall and terrace below a composed palace front with a slight concave curve, has the end and middle pairs broken forward, the latter slightly raised; ashlar rusticated ground floor, rendered apart from Nos 5 & 6, to a band, fluted Corinthian pilasters to the upper floors, a full entablature to Nos 5 & 6 only, the rest have a thin string and modillion cornice, with dies and balustrade, ramped up to the centre section. Semicircular-arched ground-floor openings with incised voussoirs; lower right-hand doorways have 5-pane fanlights, No.1 has a teardrop fanlight with a lantern, reeded transom and 6-panel doors with reeded flush lower panels. 6/6-pane sashes, 9/9-pane first-floor sashes, with 6/6/6-pane triple sashes to No.5, and wrought-iron basket balconies with cast-lead decoration to Nos 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8; third-floor windows below the cornice to Nos 2-4, attic storeys added to Nos 7 & 8. The left return has rounded corners and a single-storey porch with semicircular arches, 3 to the side, with imposts, and a canted first-floor bay. Steps down to basement areas and doorways. INTERIOR: centre pair: entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch from a central toplit lateral open-well stair with stick balusters, ramped rail and curtail; marble fireplaces have moulded jambs and corner roundels, first-floor front rooms have marble fire surrounds with moulded jambs with wreaths and bouquets; arched recesses to ground and first floors; elaborate cornices, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. No.6 has round glazed lights set in the ground-floor stair treads. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed wrought-iron basement area railings and gates. HISTORICAL NOTE: most of Watts' capital was spent on the massive revetment (qv) on which the terrace was built. Begun by Eveleigh as a larger crescent, but only the middle pair was built before the financial collapse of 1791. John Drew completed the project to a confused version of the original. Hannah More the noted educationalist died at No.4 in 1833. Painted by Samuel Jackson in c1825 & 1839. Part of the visually very important view of Clifton from across the Avon. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 219; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 226; Greenacre F and Stoddard S: The Bristol Landscape, The Watercolours of Samuel Jackson: Bristol: 1986-: 41, 55).

Listing NGR: ST5667572662

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