Description

BRISTOL

ST5774 COTHAM HILL, Cotham
901-1/34/1157 (West side)
04/03/77 Nos.39-45 (Odd)
Melrose Cottages

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. 1843-4. Probably by George Gay. Rendered
with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style.
Each of 2 storeys and basement; 2 windows. A composed terrace
of 2 handed pairs with pilasters framing outer doorways and to
party walls, frieze, cornice and parapet, ramped up at the
ends and centre. Steps up to outer doorways which have paired
pilasters to an entablature, overlights with margin bars,
No.45 with a lantern, and 2-panel doors. Large ground-floor
windows have pilasters to an entablature and 10/10-pane
sashes, architraves to second floor 6/6-pane sashes, smaller
over the doors with panelled aprons; basement sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central stair hall with open-well
stair with stick balusters, urn newels, a ramped rail, and a
small room between the stair and the party wall; stone
fireplaces with fluted sides and roundels, with baskets with
Greek Revival decoration, cornices with palmettes, 6-panel
doors, panelled shutters. Possibly one of Gay's early
terraces, featuring characteristic details such as paired
pilasters and raised lintels.

Listing NGR: ST5787074020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497820

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