Belle Vue Castle Belle Vue And Attached Piers And Railings

BRISTOL

ST5774 GROVE ROAD, Redland 901-1/34/866 (South East side) Nos.19 AND 20 Belle Vue (19), Castle Belle Vue (20) and attached piers and railings to No.20

GV II

Pair of attached houses, one now college. Mid C19. Red rubble with limestone dressings, ashlar lateral and ridge stacks and a slate double-pile roof. Tudor Gothic Revival style. Symmetrical double-depth plan. Principal front to the rear garden, with grey rubble basement, quoins and a central buttress, paired gables and single storey gable-end porches. Inner ground-floor 3-light oriels have trefoil heads, corbel tables and crenellated parapets, 3-light windows above and to the sides with labels, paired attic and outer second-floor windows, with 2/2-pane sashes. Entrance porches attached to 2-story parapeted side blocks, with 4-centre arches, octagonal corner buttresses and crenellated parapets, to arched inner half-glazed panelled doors with flanking trefoil-headed windows; 2 end gables. The road front has paired gables with barge-boards and octagonal pendants, and a central buttress. Paired octagonal ashlar end gable stacks, and square ridge stacks, with cornices. INTERIOR: No.20, central stair hall divided by a 4-centred arch and label mould, to a dogleg stair with cast-iron balusters, moulded rail and octagonal newel, and moulded stone architraves to panelled doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers with decorative cornices, central pier and wrought-iron railings to No.20. A picturesque pair with Gothick styling to a late Georgian plan.

Listing NGR: ST5752674820