Description

BRISTOL

ST5873NE KING SQUARE, Kingsdown
901-1/5/1478 (South West side)
08/01/59 Nos.2-7 (Consecutive)
and attached front area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
KING SQUARE
(South West side)
Nos.2-7 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses. c1762. Probably by Thomas Paty. Brick
with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a
pantile hipped and gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Mid
Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, No.5 of 4 storeys, basement
and attic; 3-window range.
Originally a formal group articulated by rusticated pilasters
but now missing the left end pair of houses, the floor heights
vary in an attempt to reduce the steps in the cornice and
parapet going up the slope. A continuous roof to the left
half, and hipped roofs to the right.
Doorways set to the outer party walls have Gibbs surrounds
with stepped keys and pediments, rectangular overlights with
plate glass, and 6-panel doors; the middle pair have plainer
pedimented doorcases with consoles, No.3 with a frosted
tympanum. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to horned
sashes of varying heights, plate glass and some with 6/6
panes; the middle pair have first-floor French windows with
margin bars, and wrought-iron basket balconies on No.4. The
entrance to No.7 is in the right return which has a 3-window
range, quoins and a cornice, a central Doric portico with
wreaths on the entablature, to a battered, eared architrave
and a 6-panel door; cambered heads on the ground floor and
flat above with flush boxes to C20 6/6-pane sashes. Front
paved areas over projecting basements.
INTERIOR: No.4, entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch
on good fluted pilasters, with panelled walls with
egg-and-dart panels; parallel dogleg stair has column-on-vase
balusters, column newels, a ramped, toadback rail, and
matching wainscot; at the half-landing is a semicircular arch
with pilasters and panelled reveals. C20 doorway through to
No.5, which includes a front left room with a flat arch on
Doric columns, and rear room with wainscot and modillion
cornice.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings have urn
finials.
Part of a square laid out by George Tully c1740, whose houses
on the SE side have been destroyed.
(Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol:
Bristol: 1923-: 50).

Listing NGR: ST5890673764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580620

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