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ST5673 THE PROMENADE, Clifton 901-1/1/1074 (West side) 04/03/77 Penavon and Chatford and attached front basement railings, walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: THE PROMENADE, Clifton Down Penavon and Chatford)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1845. Limestone ashlar, rendered sides, lateral and ridge stacks and interlocking tile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. Formerly a symmetrical front with a rusticated ground floor with 1-window end sections set back, rusticated quoins above the ground floor to a panelled second-floor sill band, and bracketed overhanging eaves. Entrances in the returns, to the right a plain open porch with pilasters to an entablature and parapet, to the left an open porch with fluted Ionic columns between pilasters to an entablature, and 2-leaf 6-panel door. End sections have ground floors level with the middle, that to the right with fluted attached Ionic columns set between broad pilasters to an entablature, that to the left with pilasters to a moulded entablature and cornice, with an eared and shouldered architrave to paired windows and a mullion pilaster. Ground-floor windows have recessed architraves, eared and shouldered above with cornices on the outer first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes and second-floor 6-pane casements. 2 first-floor stone balconies to the middle section on cast-iron brackets, with bowed decorative cast-iron railings. 3-window returns, outer ones blind to lateral stacks. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron lattice railings to wide front basement areas; attached front garden walls and 2 pairs of banded piers with central panels cornice and caps. Entrances possibly originally in the end sections, and moved mid C19 to the end porches. Part of a fine group of ashlar villas extending N from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5658073628

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