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

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