Description

BRISTOL

ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/1128 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.153, 155 AND 157

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses. 1856. By WB Gingell. Limestone ashlar, ashlar and brick lateral and party wall stacks and a concrete tiled hipped roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys, basement and attic; 9-window range. A large symmetrical front has matching 2-window gabled wings with overhanging eaves and square outer towers, and single-window range setback end blocks. Banded pilasters to the corners, quoins on the second floor, and bands separating the floors. Right-hand ground floor obscured by C20 shop front; left-hand open semicircular-arched porch to 2-panel door. The wings have semicircular-arched keyed windows to plate-glass sashes, Venetian on the first-floor to the inside, and paired above; the gables have small paired windows beneath a small oculus, and the towers have triple windows with tall keys in a recessed panel. The middle has 3 semicircular arches to a ground-floor verandah with cast-iron railings, square piers to the basement and verandah, with circles in the spandrels; steps and balustrades up to a left-hand doorway, with a semicircular-arched doorway and French windows. First-floor segmental-arched projecting lintels to flat-headed French windows, second-floor windows with bracketed cills and cornices, and brackets to stone eaves. The attic has 3 large dormers with wide segmental pediments. Lateral stacks with flared caps. INTERIOR: rear dogleg stairs with cast-iron balusters and wreathed rails, and rear stair lights with stained glass; egg-and-dart cornices, and 6-panel doors; No.157 has a late C19 ballroom to the rear with a panelled fireplace and overmantel, frieze and cornice and balustrade to the entrance steps. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 273).

Listing NGR: ST5754674520

External Links

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