Description

BRISTOL

ST5873NE DIGHTON STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/5/1477 (South side) 04/03/77 No.2 and attached wall and front area railings (Formerly Listed as: DIGHTON STREET No.2)

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House, now flats. Late C18. For Joseph Harford. Limestone ashlar and squared, coursed Pennant rubble, rendered gable stacks and a slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 9-window range. Built on a slope with the front set back from the basement, symmetrical with 5-window centre and 3-window wings set back, the left one a single storey. Rusticated ground floor has incised voussoirs and a plat band, pilasters from there to a cornice and parapet, raised on the taller centre to the height of the pediment, with ball finials. A fine central doorcase has blocked pilasters to an open pediment and stepped keys, and an 8-panel door, set in the pedimented 3-window section; 6/6-pane horned sashes to the ground floor, sashes with margin bars above and smaller windows with C20 plate-glass sashes to the second floor; 2 dormers. Rendered sides, C20 second floor to the left wing, which has 2 wide segmental arches at basement height. The projecting basement has corner piers, and 2 doorways with rusticated surrounds, the central one beneath a ramped coping. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall and railings to the front of the basement area. One of a number of houses modelled on Clifton Hill House, 1750 (qv), and probably designed by Thomas Paty. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 154).

Listing NGR: ST5886473688

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)