Description

BRISTOL

ST5772NW CORNWALLIS GROVE, Clifton
901-1/14/842 (South side)
04/03/77 Cornwallis House
(Formerly Listed as:
CORNWALLIS GROVE
La Retraite (Cornwallis House))

GV II

House, now flats. c1794, extended c1820. Limestone ashlar and
stucco, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian
style. 3 storeys and basement; 11-window range.
A symmetrical front has central C18 five-window block with the
middle 3 windows broken forward, and 3-window C19 wings set
back each side. The piano nobile ground floor has bowed
rustication to a plat band, first-floor sill band, cornice,
and parapet ramped up over the centre and with balustrades
over the windows.
A large C19 raised porch has a rusticated basement with 3
semicircular-arched openings, separated by niches below paired
Ionic columns to an entablature; flights of steps each side
with Pennant dressings have cast-iron railings with diagonal
bars. Pennant stair flight to the right-hand wing with
wrought-iron railings. Semicircular-arched basement windows;
6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes to the second storey.
The stucco rear elevation has 1:3:1 C18 middle with quoins and
inner pilasters, plat band, first-floor sill band, and
cornice, doorway with a console cornice, rectangular fanlight
and 6-panel door; windows with architraves, keyed to the
centre, to 6/6-pane and 3/3-pane sashes. Projecting ashlar
outer blocks have inner semicircular-arched doorways, and
ground-floor windows set in elliptical-arched recesses linked
by an impost band.
INTERIOR: much altered; rear stair hall with a good mid C18
open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters with twisted
vases, 3 per tread, and a moulded ramped rail to a wide
curtail, second-floor stair with column balusters, and a
modillion cornice.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 263).

Listing NGR: ST5702472867

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502616

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version