Description

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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

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