Description

BRISTOL

ST5775 DURDHAM PARK, Redland
901-1/31/1704 (South West side)
No.13
Tuscany House

II

House, now flats. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar with lateral and
ridge stacks and a slate cross-gabled roof. Double-depth plan.
Italianate style.
2 storeys and attic; 2-window entrance front. A large,
irregularly planned house has a plinth, long rusticated
quoins, plat band and sill bands, with brackets below
overhanging eaves. An entrance porch set in the re-entrant
between projecting pedimented sections with oculus, has 3/4
Ionic columns to an entablature and parapet pierced by half
moons, a semicircular-arched doorway with key and imposts,
plate-glass fanlight and 2-leaf 6-panel door.
The entrance front has semicircular-arched ground-floor
windows with keys and imposts and 6/4-pane sashes, paired in a
bay to the pedimented left-hand section, and a single window
to the right, single flat-headed window above with shouldered
architraves and 4/4-pane sashes; to the right side are paired
pilaster strips to a lateral stack.
The road front has a left-hand 3-storey square tower with
banded ground floor and paired pilaster strips, paired
semicircular-arched ground-floor windows and single tripartite
windows above with segmental-arched central lights to second
floor; segmental-headed windows to central section, with a
left-hand semicircular-arched doorway.
At the right end is a single-storey projection with paired
semicircular-arched windows, and a C20 first floor added.
The garden front has a 13-window range, with two 3-window
canted bays to the left and centre separated by a tripartite
window, and an octagonal crenellated tower on the right-hand
corner; shouldered architraves to 4/4-pane sashes, with panel
aprons.
INTERIOR: extensively remodelled and subdivided.

Listing NGR: ST5750475021

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569263

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings