Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre
901-1/16/544 (South East side)
04/03/77 No.14

GV II

Terrace of 2 houses, now attached offices. Late C18. Possibly
by Thomas Paty. Altered early C19. Render over limestone
ashlar, and a hipped pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan.
Late Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 8-window range. An
angled corner site has 3:2:1:2 windows, the doorway in the
1-window corner, with a C20 plate-glass shop front clad in
marble; pilasters above to a cornice which breaks forward over
them, and parapet. First-floor sill band to 2 right-hand
sections, with architraves above to horned 6/6-pane sashes,
windows to the left have 5 stepped voussoirs, blind to the 2
left-hand first-floor windows, with 2 small 6/6-pane
second-floor sashes in flush frames, and a segmental-arched
basement opening. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20, but
with a C19 cast-iron open-well winder stair from the ground
floor with decorative foliate balusters and newel. Possibly
part of a terrace with Nos 10 & 12 (qv), in the Paty manner of
Bath Street (qv).
(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 25;
Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 210).

Listing NGR: ST5866772910

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571311

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]