Numbers 1 To 31 And Attached Front Basement Area Railings

Numbers 1 to 31 Caledonia Place is a terrace of 31 houses built around 1843 in Bristol, designed by T Foster and W Okely. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and have slate and pantile double-pile roofs. They are built to a double-depth plan and represent a late Georgian style with Greek Revival details.

Each house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and features a three-window front. The terrace is stepped, with a banded ground floor up to a plat band, giant pilasters extending to a frieze, and an overlapping cornice. The attic storey is coped. The left-hand doorways have battered recessed surrounds and raised lintels over overlights with three round and margin panes, with eight-panel doors featuring roundels. Windows are primarily 6/6-pane sashes, with 6-9-pane windows on the first floor and 3/6-pane windows in the attic.

Good contemporary stone balconies are present on the first floor, supported by cast-iron brackets featuring wrought-iron lattice sections, panels with anthemion arched tops, cobweb spandrels, and arrow braces. Steps lead down to the basement areas, which incorporate basement doors and service cellars accessed directly from the pavement. Rear elevations feature large semicircular-arched stair windows, many now partially hidden by service blocks.

The interior of the houses has not been inspected. Attached cast-iron basement area railings and gates are also listed, along with oval Pennant mounting blocks across the pavement. The terrace forms an important group with numbers 14-34 West Mall opposite, numbers 32-44 Caledonia Place, and numbers 1-13 West Mall, creating a uniquely formal planned square for Clifton. Lord Macaulay resided at number 12 in 1852.