Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
901-1/31/1797 (North West side)
Nos.41 AND 43
and attached garden walls and piers
with ball finials

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked
limestone rubble and dressings, tilehanging, brick ridge and
diagonally-set lateral stacks and tile hipped and gabled roof.
Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style.
3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with the
entrances in the sides, projecting outer gables linked across
the ground floor with stone-framed windows. Carved doorcases
have terms flanking a mullion overlight and swan's neck
pediment, to an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door. No.39
has a porte cochere with a hipped roof and Doric columns to
the wall between the houses.
The gables have bows with 5-light windows and a parapet;
3-light first-floor windows above have small pediments cutting
a string, and 4-light second-floor windows with a central king
mullion; finials flank a steep, segmental-pedimented gable
with a keyed oculus. Between are 3-light ground-floor windows
with a balcony above with ball finials; the upper storeys are
set back with 3-light windows beneath coved eaves and large
4-light dormers.
The lower floors have plate-glass casements with glazing bars
above the transoms. The rear elevation has semicircular-arched
stair lights and a single-storey service block.
INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side lights,
central hall with elliptical arch to dogleg staircase which
has turned balusters and large newels, 5-panel doors, rear
kitchens with built-in dressers, fireplaces and cornices.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers
with ball finials. Stongly influenced by Norman Shaw's Bedford
Park, 1881.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).

Listing NGR: ST5648775128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501509

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