Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
901-1/31/1792 (South East side)
Nos.32 AND 34
and attached front garden walls and
piers

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Dated 1896. By Henry Dare Bryan.
Snecked limestone rubble with limestone dressings, tile-hung
second-floor gables, brick ridge and diagonally-set lateral
and exterior stacks and plain tiled and concrete hipped and
gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style.
3 storeys; 4-window range. A symmetrical pair with the
entrances in the sides, projecting paired central gables, and
stone-framed ground-floor mullion and transom windows with
fine leaded casements. Carved doorcases have foliate corbels
to wany brackets and a tiled canopy, 3-light overlight and a
date panel, and an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door. The
gables have 3-light windows, with small pediments on the
ground floor, first-floor timber windows on small brackets
with casements and glazing bars, and similar second-floor
windows beneath shallow jettied timber-framed gables.
Outer ground-floor square bays, flush with the central gables,
have 4-light windows with a central fleur-de-lys and timber
railings to the balconies above, which have Venetian windows
with rubbed brick arches; large eaves dormers with bracketed
windows and timber-framed gables. The rear elevation is flat
with semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey
service block.
INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side
windows, a black and white tiled hall, elliptical arch to a
dogleg stair with turned balusters and large turned newels,
5-panel doors, cornices and fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers
with ball finials. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's Bedford
Park, 1881.

Listing NGR: ST5652675102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497850

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