Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1794 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.36 AND 38 and attached front garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWNLEAZE Nos.45, 47 AND 36-42 (Even))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked Lias rubble with limestone dressings, tile-hung second floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set gable stacks and concrete tile hip and gable roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting outer gables linked across the ground floor, which has stone-framed windows. Carved doorcases have terms flanking a mullion overlight and swan's neck pediment, to an elliptical-arched ridged 2-leaf door. Ground-floor mullion and transom windows with leaded casements, first-floor mullion and transom windows have glazing bars above the transoms, and second-floor casements project slightly on small brackets. The gables have 2 ground-floor cross windows separated by a raking buttress supporting a 3-light oriel; above is an overhanging second floor on brackets with a 3-light window, under jettied half-timbered gable apex. In between are shallow ground-floor 3-light bows set between angled buttresses, with a parapet and cartouche panels; 3-light first-floor windows, and 3-light eaves dormers with tile-hung tympana. The rear elevation is flat with semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with ball finials. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881.

Listing NGR: ST5651475096

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