Description

BRISTOL

ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton
901-1/34/1128 (East side)
04/03/77 Nos.153, 155 AND 157

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses. 1856. By WB Gingell. Limestone ashlar,
ashlar and brick lateral and party wall stacks and a concrete
tiled hipped roof. Italianate style.
3 storeys, basement and attic; 9-window range. A large
symmetrical front has matching 2-window gabled wings with
overhanging eaves and square outer towers, and single-window
range setback end blocks. Banded pilasters to the corners,
quoins on the second floor, and bands separating the floors.
Right-hand ground floor obscured by C20 shop front; left-hand
open semicircular-arched porch to 2-panel door.
The wings have semicircular-arched keyed windows to
plate-glass sashes, Venetian on the first-floor to the inside,
and paired above; the gables have small paired windows beneath
a small oculus, and the towers have triple windows with tall
keys in a recessed panel. The middle has 3 semicircular arches
to a ground-floor verandah with cast-iron railings, square
piers to the basement and verandah, with circles in the
spandrels; steps and balustrades up to a left-hand doorway,
with a semicircular-arched doorway and French windows.
First-floor segmental-arched projecting lintels to flat-headed
French windows, second-floor windows with bracketed cills and
cornices, and brackets to stone eaves. The attic has 3 large
dormers with wide segmental pediments. Lateral stacks with
flared caps.
INTERIOR: rear dogleg stairs with cast-iron balusters and
wreathed rails, and rear stair lights with stained glass;
egg-and-dart cornices, and 6-panel doors; No.157 has a late
C19 ballroom to the rear with a panelled fireplace and
overmantel, frieze and cornice and balustrade to the entrance
steps.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 273).

Listing NGR: ST5754674520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579266

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