Clifton College

BRISTOL

ST5773NW WORCESTER ROAD, Clifton 901-1/2/1145 (North side) 04/03/77 No.2 Clifton College (part) (Formerly Listed as: WORCESTER ROAD No.2)

GV II

Attached house, now school. 1863. By Charles Hansom. Squared Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, external and ridge stacks, and a tiled roof with bands of round-nosed tiles. Double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. An asymmetrical front has first-floor string, right-hand gabled wing and a lower left-hand gable, with barge-boards. Central entrance porch beside and level with the wing has a 2-centred arched doorway with moulded chamfered jambs, tympanum with a trefoil and carved panels with hunting horns, and a hoodmould with square stops, to a 2-leaf 6-panel door; above is a pierced parapet with quatrefoils. 2-centred arched windows have chamfered reveals and relieving arches, to 2/2-pane sashes with horizontal bars: 2 paired ground-floor windows to the left of the door and a single one to the right, a triple first-floor left-hand window and paired central and right-hand ones, paired left-hand attic windows and a single one in the wing, beneath a small trefoil. Steep gabled dormers woth casements to the centre and right return, which has a gable containing cross stair windows. Stacks have moulded ashlar tops. Left-hand single-storey connecting range has 3 louvred dormers and a pent roof on an open wooden verandah. INTERIOR: largely remodelled with a replacement stair late C20. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 288).

Listing NGR: ST5711373612