Description

BRISTOL

ST5973NW BRUNSWICK SQUARE, St Paul
901-1/6/1880 (East side)
08/01/59 Nos.7-12 (Consecutive)
and area railings

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses. 1784. Possibly by William Paty. Brick
with limestone dressings, brick stacks and a pantile mansard
roof. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, basement and attic;
18-window range.
A formal composition with projecting 4-storey end blocks,
first-floor plat band and modillion cornice; doorcases have
console pediments over keyed semicircular arches with
plate-glass fanlights, paired, in the middle, on Nos 9 & 10,
to the outer sides of Nos 8 & 11, and in the side elevations
of the end houses. Each house has 3 windows with 5 stepped
voussoirs to sashes with margin bars, and 2 dormers, and the
taller end houses have pilasters above the cornice between the
brick-arched windows; end elevations have Gibbs surrounds to
central, semicircular-arched doorways and windows.
INTERIOR: most have been completely restored with the loss of
most period details. Unrestored No.12 has a large hall with
square, open-well stair with ramped rails and a modillion
cornice. No.8, dogleg stair with curtail step, ramped rail,
semicircular hall arch with fluted reveals and 6-panel
shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings to open
basement areas.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 208; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth
Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).

Listing NGR: ST5929573641

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497697

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