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

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