Description

BRISTOL

ST5773NE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton
901-1/3/1112 (West side)
04/03/77 Nos.12 AND 14
Commonwealth House
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITELADIES ROAD
(West side)
Nos.12 AND 14)

GV II

Attached pair of houses, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar
with lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style.
Each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical
front has shallow wings and side doorways, a banded ground
floor to a moulded plat band, paired upper pilasters with
capitals to a frieze, dentil cornice and parapet. The wings
have plain ground-floor windows, and bracketed pediment and
sill blocks on the first floor; paired ground-floor middle
windows with projecting jambs on moulded blocks, a similar
pair of jambs to the party wall, all to consoles beneath a
balcony with bowed cast-iron railings between the wings.
Tripartite first-floor windows with 8/8-pane margin pane
sashes, and plain second-floor windows; 6/6-pane sashes. The
ends have porches with distyle-in-antis acanthus columns to an
entablature, and a semicircular-arched recess above containing
a stair light; doorways with side windows and 6-panel doors.
INTERIOR: entrance stair halls, stone dogleg winder stairs
with cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail, bracketed
cornices and 6-panel doors.

Listing NGR: ST5777773567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579314

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)