Description

BRISTOL

ST5673SE THE PROMENADE, Clifton
901-1/7/1073 (East side)
08/01/59 Engineer's House

GV II*

Formerly known as: Camp House THE PROMENADE.
House, now office. Signed and dated 1831. By Charles Dyer. For
Charles Pinney. Limestone ashlar, rendered rear, lateral and
ridge stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window
range.
A symmetrical front has a 1-window right-hand extension; the
central 3-window section set forward with clasping pilasters
to a cornice, and a parapet pierced by balustrade sections in
front of outer attic windows; full-width sill bands and
ground-floor impost band.
The centre has a full-width 2-storey pedimented portico with
2:1:1:2 columns, Tuscan below Ionic, separated by an
entablature, signed on the left end, with a thin string with
continuous guttae and balustrades between panelled dies on the
first floor.
Plain surrounds to central windows, outer tripartite windows,
on the first floor with pilaster jambs to pediments and curved
stone brackets to balconies, and small attic windows cut
through the frieze above; matching 2-storey right-hand block
with a bay below the balcony. Horned plate-glass sashes,
French windows to left-hand ground-floor and balcony windows.
Symmetrical 3-window left return has a central pedimented
porch with Doric columns and foliate tympanum; blind windows
above with sill band, over lateral stacks. The right-hand
return has 2 oriels and a recessed centre with stained-glass
window and curved balustrade to a French window. Rendered rear
elevation has full-height bays with curved sides to each end.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with niches in chamfered corners,
axial passage, a left-hand rear 2-storey stair hall with a
stone cantilevered open-well stair with cast-iron balusters
and anthemia, foliate newels and a curtail to wreathed rail,
and panelled wainscotting; central rear dogleg service stair
has cast-iron rails; front rooms have good gilded Greek
Revival-style cornices; panelled shutters and reveals to
6-panel doors; vaulted brick basement.
Part of an outstanding group of houses including Taylor
Maxwell House (qv), Promenade House (qv) and Trafalgar House
(qv) extending NW from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: first owned by Charles Pinney, Mayor during
the Reform Bill riots of 1831, who reportedly had metal
shutters fitted to the upstairs rooms.
(Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 142; Gomme
A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History:
Bristol: 1979-: 267).

Listing NGR: ST5661673491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Engineers House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5377916

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)