Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
901-1/31/1794 (South East side)
04/03/77 Nos.36 AND 38
and attached front garden walls and
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
DOWNLEAZE
Nos.45, 47 AND 36-42 (Even))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked
Lias rubble with limestone dressings, tile-hung second floor,
brick ridge and diagonally-set gable stacks and concrete tile
hip and gable 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, which has stone-framed windows. Carved
doorcases have terms flanking a mullion overlight and swan's
neck pediment, to an elliptical-arched ridged 2-leaf door.
Ground-floor mullion and transom windows with leaded
casements, first-floor mullion and transom windows have
glazing bars above the transoms, and second-floor casements
project slightly on small brackets.
The gables have 2 ground-floor cross windows separated by a
raking buttress supporting a 3-light oriel; above is an
overhanging second floor on brackets with a 3-light window,
under jettied half-timbered gable apex. In between are shallow
ground-floor 3-light bows set between angled buttresses, with
a parapet and cartouche panels; 3-light first-floor windows,
and 3-light eaves dormers with tile-hung tympana. The rear
elevation is flat with semicircular-arched stair lights and a
single-storey service block. INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers
with ball finials. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's Bedford
Park, 1881.

Listing NGR: ST5651475096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571260

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  For the Record
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