Description

BRISTOL

ST5673 THE PROMENADE, Clifton
901-1/1/1074 (West side)
04/03/77 Penavon and Chatford and attached
front basement railings, walls and
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
THE PROMENADE, Clifton Down
Penavon and Chatford)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1845. Limestone ashlar, rendered
sides, lateral and ridge stacks and interlocking tile hipped
roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys
and basement; 3-window range.
Formerly a symmetrical front with a rusticated ground floor
with 1-window end sections set back, rusticated quoins above
the ground floor to a panelled second-floor sill band, and
bracketed overhanging eaves. Entrances in the returns, to the
right a plain open porch with pilasters to an entablature and
parapet, to the left an open porch with fluted Ionic columns
between pilasters to an entablature, and 2-leaf 6-panel door.
End sections have ground floors level with the middle, that to
the right with fluted attached Ionic columns set between broad
pilasters to an entablature, that to the left with pilasters
to a moulded entablature and cornice, with an eared and
shouldered architrave to paired windows and a mullion
pilaster.
Ground-floor windows have recessed architraves, eared and
shouldered above with cornices on the outer first-floor
windows, to 6/6-pane sashes and second-floor 6-pane casements.
2 first-floor stone balconies to the middle section on
cast-iron brackets, with bowed decorative cast-iron railings.
3-window returns, outer ones blind to lateral stacks. INTERIOR
not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron lattice railings to
wide front basement areas; attached front garden walls and 2
pairs of banded piers with central panels cornice and caps.
Entrances possibly originally in the end sections, and moved
mid C19 to the end porches. Part of a fine group of ashlar
villas extending N from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5658073628

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571073

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