Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SW PARK ROW
901-1/10/162 (North side)
08/01/59 No.15
Lunsford House and attached garden
walls
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROW
(North side)
No.15
Lunsford House)

II*

House, now office. 1722, altered c1750, restored c1990. Brick
with tuck pointing and limestone dressings, central ridge and
side gable stacks and pantile and Cornish slate hipped roof,
half hipped to each side. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian
style.
3 storeys and attic; 6-window range. A good symmetrical front
with projecting mid C18 two-window centre, brick bands to the
outer sections, and a cornice and moulded coping both ramped
up to the centre. The outer sections have 2 windows and 1 in
the attic, with rubbed brick flat arches. Centre has a wide,
open elliptical arch to a bowed porch and 4-panel door; above
is a Venetian window, and 5 stepped voussoirs to upper floors.
6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-pane attic sashes, in flush boxes to the
middle and right side. Large central cruciform stack. Right
return has a semicircular-arched stair window; and rear
right-hand doorway with a canopy on brackets. Hipped dormers
to sides and rear.
INTERIOR: a fine and complete early C18 interior, ground- and
first-floor rooms with raised panelling, shutters and 6-panel
doors, and hall semicircular-arched doorways with fluted jambs
and good carved keys; central stair hall with fine open-well
stair, column-on-vase balusters, alternate ones twisted,
column newels, and a moulded ramped rail, wainscot and good
plaster ceiling; late Victorian fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY
FEATURES: attached rubble walls round garden. A fine late
Baroque house with a good interior.

Listing NGR: ST5837573162

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553091

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)