Description

BRISTOL

ST315874 COTHAM ROAD, Cotham
901-1/35/1191 (West side)
04/03/77 Nos.49, 51 AND 53
and attached front garden walls
(Formerly Listed as:
COTHAM ROAD
(North side)
Nos.49-53 (Odd))

II

Terrace of 3 houses. c1855. Limestone ashlar with party wall
stacks and pantile hip roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate
style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 7-window range.
Projecting wings, that to the right with a complete return
elevation. The wings have a rusticated ground floor to a plat
band, with a 3-light bow and open work parapet; the first
floors have paired pilasters to the sides, and two 6/6-pane
sashes with architraves.
The recessed centre has a left-hand doorway with a plate-glass
overlight and 4-panel external shutters, and 2 late C19
plate-glass sashes to the ground; central tripartite
first-floor window with a central semicircular-arched window
flanked by 2 smaller ones, and consoles to a cornice, with
architraves to 6/6-pane sashes either side.
A good cast-iron verandah overhanging the basement windows has
timber fretwork supports to a first-floor balcony, and a
central elliptical arch with flanking semicircular arches in
decorative cast-iron. Frieze and cornice below the full-width
attic, which has 1:3:1 3/3-pane sashes with blue glass to the
upper ones, and a moulded coping.
The right return is a 4-window range modelled on the wings,
steps forward after the first window and has a bowed
Corinthian portico to a 2-panel door and semicircular
overlight. The left return is plain render.
INTERIOR: No.51, half-glazed hall screen with a
semicircular-arched overlight and 2-leaf door, a modillion
cornice, 6-panel doors, 4-panel shutters, and a central dogleg
stair to the right with turned balusters and a curtail. The
front first floor was originally one room.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls and
gate piers.

Listing NGR: ST5864374126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571285

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