Description

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton
901-1/1/725 (North West side)
04/03/77 Nos.28 AND 29
and attached front basement area
railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
CANYNGE SQUARE
Nos.26-33 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1847. By Charles Underwood, finished
by WB Gingell. Render with limestone dressings, party wall
stacks and slate and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic;
2-window range.
A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings, deep cornice
and parapet, linked to single-storey outer porches by a deep
moulded band which carries on to the neighbouring pairs.
Segmental-arched doorways with raised surrounds, plate-glass
overlights and 2-panel doors. Raised window surrounds with
sill blocks and small ears, tripartite inner ground-floor
windows, to 4/4-pane sashes, and 2/2-pane sashes with margin
panes to the second floor.
No.28 has a first-floor tented balcony to the inner window
with cast-iron decorative railings and Vitruvian scroll, and a
full-height extension set back over the porch.
Rear elevation has a 5-window range, of first-floor
semicircular-arched windows with raised, keyed surrounds,
tripartite outer and single central windows with 2/2-pane
sashes, each with a first-floor cast-iron balcony with
diagonal railings and Vitruvian scroll; upper windows have
raised, eared surrounds and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR not
inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area
spear-headed cast-iron railings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: finished by Gingell after the original
speculator was made bankrupt. Part of quasi-terrace of 4
linked semi-detached pairs, intermediate between the composed
terrace of Nos 8-25 (qv), and the separate pairs along the W
side of the square, all by Underwood.

Listing NGR: ST5685373612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571327

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