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)

II

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571257

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)