14, Clare Street

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/544 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.14

GV II

Terrace of 2 houses, now attached offices. Late C18. Possibly by Thomas Paty. Altered early C19. Render over limestone ashlar, and a hipped pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 8-window range. An angled corner site has 3:2:1:2 windows, the doorway in the 1-window corner, with a C20 plate-glass shop front clad in marble; pilasters above to a cornice which breaks forward over them, and parapet. First-floor sill band to 2 right-hand sections, with architraves above to horned 6/6-pane sashes, windows to the left have 5 stepped voussoirs, blind to the 2 left-hand first-floor windows, with 2 small 6/6-pane second-floor sashes in flush frames, and a segmental-arched basement opening. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20, but with a C19 cast-iron open-well winder stair from the ground floor with decorative foliate balusters and newel. Possibly part of a terrace with Nos 10 & 12 (qv), in the Paty manner of Bath Street (qv). (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 25; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 210).

Listing NGR: ST5866772910