Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL, Clifton
901-1/9/972 (South side)
04/03/77 Nos.5-8 (Consecutive)
and attached front garden walls,
piers and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND HILL
(South side)
Nos.5-8 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND HILL
(South side)
Gateways to Nos.5 and 6)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. c1813. Limestone ashlar, party wall
stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical
style.
Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range.
Composed terrace has end 2-storey entrance blocks set back;
articulated between by giant pilasters to a moulded coping,
wide flutes to the pilaster between Nos 5 & 6, and a parapet
ramped up to the party walls. Raised basement, rusticated
ground floor, bands to each floor, and impost bands to first
and second floors.
No.5 has steps up to a semicircular-arched doorway with impost
blocks and key, plate-glass fanlight and 6-panel door, and an
elliptical-arched basement door below; No.6 has a right-hand
doorway with a metal fanlight under a tented porch, Nos 7 & 8
have basement doorways with large pedimented lintels on
brackets, and French windows with margin bars; No.8 has steps
up to a flat-headed end doorway with a glazed door, beneath a
large C20 conservatory. 2:3:3:2 middle windows, with large
incised keys to the ground floor, upper windows set in
semicircular-arched recesses, with 6/6-pane sashes and
3/6-panes to the second floor. Semicircular-arched windows in
the end blocks with paired first-floor windows to No.8.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls with
rusticated piers and wrought-iron 2-leaf gates. Small
variations in ground-floor voussoirs and in pilasters suggest
the terrace was not completed as planned.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 230).

Listing NGR: ST5774573316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571155

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