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ST5672NE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/13/1016 (East side) 08/01/59 No.1 St Vincent's Rocks Hotel and attached front area walls, railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL No.1 St Vincent's Rocks Hotel)

GV II

House, now hotel. c1800. Converted late C19 by JH Hirst. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 4 storeys and basement; 7-window range. A near-symmetrical front has canted full-height bays, the right-hand one projecting further than the left, to a cornice and parapet. Central raised semicircular-arched doorway has a plate-glass fanlight, and inner C20 half-glazed doors. Horned plate-glass sashes, with blind boxes to the ground floor, and 3 basement windows, the outer ones blind. Mid C19 full-width first-floor tented timber balcony has cast-iron brackets and wrought-iron railings with lattice sections separated by panels with anthemia in arched tops, and cobweb spandrels. To the rear a late C19 long brick extension raised on open arches. INTERIOR: much altered; rear open dogleg stair with cast-iron stick balusters and newels, and a good ramped rail with inlaid strip and star to the bottom wreath. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached walls and capped outer piers, central double stairs curve in to a flight to the doorway, and spear-headed wrought-iron railings. Linked internally with the adjoining house, now hotel annex (qv). Forms part of a continuous uphill row of houses dating from c1780-1800 with many variations, the use of tall bay windows and fine balconies being a particularly distinctive element. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 62).

Listing NGR: ST5665472988

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