Description

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ST315874 COTHAM ROAD, Cotham 901-1/35/1191 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.49, 51 AND 53 and attached front garden walls (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM ROAD (North side) Nos.49-53 (Odd))

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Terrace of 3 houses. c1855. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and pantile hip roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 7-window range. Projecting wings, that to the right with a complete return elevation. The wings have a rusticated ground floor to a plat band, with a 3-light bow and open work parapet; the first floors have paired pilasters to the sides, and two 6/6-pane sashes with architraves. The recessed centre has a left-hand doorway with a plate-glass overlight and 4-panel external shutters, and 2 late C19 plate-glass sashes to the ground; central tripartite first-floor window with a central semicircular-arched window flanked by 2 smaller ones, and consoles to a cornice, with architraves to 6/6-pane sashes either side. A good cast-iron verandah overhanging the basement windows has timber fretwork supports to a first-floor balcony, and a central elliptical arch with flanking semicircular arches in decorative cast-iron. Frieze and cornice below the full-width attic, which has 1:3:1 3/3-pane sashes with blue glass to the upper ones, and a moulded coping. The right return is a 4-window range modelled on the wings, steps forward after the first window and has a bowed Corinthian portico to a 2-panel door and semicircular overlight. The left return is plain render. INTERIOR: No.51, half-glazed hall screen with a semicircular-arched overlight and 2-leaf door, a modillion cornice, 6-panel doors, 4-panel shutters, and a central dogleg stair to the right with turned balusters and a curtail. The front first floor was originally one room. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls and gate piers.

Listing NGR: ST5864374126

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