Description

BRISTOL

ST5873NE COTHAM ROAD, Cotham
901-1/5/1180 (North side)
04/03/77 Nos.27 AND 29
(Formerly Listed as:
COTHAM ROAD
(North side)
Nos.17-35 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now flats. c1840. Limestone ashlar
with rendered sides, roof not visible. Double-depth plan.
Italianate style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 4-window
range.
A symmetrical front has projecting wings with ground-floor
bays and a wide central recess, and entrances in the ends; a
moulded plinth, banded rustication on the ground floor to an
entablature which runs round the bays, paired first-floor
pilasters to a bracketed cornice and attic storey with a
moulded coping. Porches at either end have pilasters to an
entablature, and a semicircular arch to recessed half-glazed
door with stained glass.
The bays have tripartite windows with thin mullions to
6/6-pane and flanking 2/2-pane sashes, below a parapet in
front of tripartite first-floor windows with architraves and
console cornices. The basement links the wings, below a tented
verandah with cast-iron supports and railings, and French
windows; the middle first-floor windows have architraves to
6/6-pane sashes with panels below; 2 attic windows break
through the cornice in the middle, with 3/3-pane sashes, and
gaps to the outside suggest earlier windows there. The
basement has cambered heads to 6/6-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall and lateral dogleg stair with stick
balusters, modillion cornice and panelled shutters. Nos 19-33
(qv) share a common plan and elevations, with variations in
the detailed decoration.

Listing NGR: ST5852373984

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571283

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