Description

BRISTOL

ST5774 GROVE ROAD, Redland
901-1/34/1714 (South East side)
04/03/77 Nos.8 AND 9

GV II

House, now attached pair. Early C18 single-depth house, late
C18 double-depth pair, with C19 alterations. Render with
limestone dressings, gable and party wall stacks and a pantile
hipped roof. Mid-Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 3-window
range.
A symmetrical front with a thin cornice and central pediment,
and parapet. Paired doorways have bracketed pediments,
plate-glass fanlights and 6-panel doors. Sashes with exposed
frames: 8/8-pane ground-floor sashes, first floor has a
right-hand tripartite window with 6/6-pane flanked by 2/2-pane
sashes, a central oriel with 8/8-pane flanked by 4/4-pane
sashes, and a left-hand 8/8-pane sash; second floor has a
central Venetian window with 6/6-pane flanked by 2/2-pane
sashes, and paired 6/6-pane sashes each side.
INTERIOR: No.9 modernised. No.8, open-well stair with column
newels, ramped rail and C20 balusters; good C18 frieze and
cornice in the right-hand front room, with pilasters to
elliptical-arched recesses; first-floor central room extends
above No.9, with wainscot, modillion cornice, and the panelled
soffit and reveals to an early C18 rear oriel, now a bayed
recess; coved cornice to rear second-floor bedroom; attic with
3 rooms; 6-panel doors, panelled shutters and window seats;
C18 fireplace with a swagged cast-iron lintel.
An unusual early Georgian house extended and subdivided in the
late C18, presumably at the same time as the adjoining
terrace, which has matching doorcases.

Listing NGR: ST5745674733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571249

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