Numbers 14-17 And Attached Area Railings

BRISTOL

ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul 901-1/6/1902 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.14-17 (Consecutive) and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND SQUARE (East side) Nos.14-17 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 4 houses. 1789-1820. By Daniel Hague. Limestone ashlar, brick stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Half of a formal composition interrupted by St Paul's Church (qv), the end houses project slightly and No.14 has an ashlar attic; rusticated ground-floor, pilasters from the first-floor plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet. Right-hand doorcases have Ionic columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights and 6-panel doors; rusticated voussoirs to the ground-floor windows and plain voussoirs above, with 6/6-pane sashes. The left gable has a central semicircular-arched stair window and 3 lunettes above the cornice. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt behind the facade. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas. Forms part of Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful square' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 209; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).

Listing NGR: ST5948273713