Description

BRISTOL

ST5673SE PORTLAND STREET, Clifton
901-1/7/927 (North side)
Nos.30 AND 32

GV II

Includes: Nos.2-7 GLOUCESTER STREET Clifton.
Includes: Nos.2-6 JAMES PLACE Clifton.
13 attached houses. Early C19. Roughcast and black stucco with
limestone dressings, party wall stacks, and valley roofs.
Single-depth plan houses arranged to form a 3-sided court.
Each of 3 storeys; 1-window range, 2 windows to houses facing
Portland Street, with basements to Gloucester Street. 3
connected terraces, 2 with a house facing on to Portland
Street and backed by terraces of 3 to the SW and 2 to the NE
facing each other across a flagged court, linked by a terrace
of 6 across the back facing Gloucester Street.
Each house has a plinth, pilaster strips to a frieze, cornice
and parapet, with first- and second-floor sill bands; Nos 30 &
32 have central doorways, No.2 Gloucester Street linked to
No.1 and without a doorway, the rest are paired, with raised
surrounds and bracketed flat cornices, rectangular overlights
with margin panes to doors with 4 flush panels. Raised, keyed
surrounds with rounded corners, cornices and sill blocks,
plain second-floor surrounds, to horned 2/2-pane sashes with
margin panes; basement grilles to Gloucester Street. Wide
arched vaults to the Gloucester Street houses open into the
court. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rear
yards.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a unique arrangement with Carter's Buildings
(qv) of courtyard housing in Bristol. Courts were more common
from the late C18 in the fast-growing industrial towns of the
north. Shown on Donne's 1821 map.

Listing NGR: ST5688973159

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498054

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)