Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton
901-1/8/1080 (South West side)
08/01/59 Nos.15-25 (Consecutive)
and attached front basement area and
garden railings to north-east

GV II*

Terrace of 11 houses. c1855. J Marmont. Limestone ashlar with
party wall stacks and pantile and slate hipped and mansard
roofs. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 3 storeys,
attic and basement; 3-window range.
A composed 'palace front' terrace has the end and central
houses stepped forward, with rusticated pilasters to a cornice
on large consoles, and coped attic storey. Plat band, sill
bands and strings to upper floors, and a continuous
first-floor balcony on cast-iron brackets with elaborate
railings with round panels and foliate finials.
Ground-floor openings have architraves, with right-hand
doorways with overlights and 4-panel doors. First-floor
semicircular-arched windows with imposts, and panels with
shields between. Paired semicircular-arched second-floor
windows set in round arches, with sunken spandrels, and aprons
of intersecting circles. Plate-glass sashes and first-floor
French windows.
Attic has paired semicircular-arched windows between panelled
pilasters; the end and centre houses have segmental pediments
to the windows, a second attic storey above with paired
windows, with 3 to the centre, and large acroteria on the
corners of the parapet. The end houses have side entrances in
symmetrical 1-window range facades, single-storey porches with
open fronts and rusticated sides, windows above as the front
set between rusticated pilasters. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron
railings and gates.
A less carefully composed terrace than Royal Promenade (qv),
although still a very influential one which forms part of a
remarkable group of terraces which exemplify the move away
from more severe early C19 classicism.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 261; Mowl T: To Build The Second
City: Bristol: 1991-: 166).

Listing NGR: ST5720373079

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553284

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