ALMA ROAD (See details for further address information)

BRISTOL

ST5774NW ALMA ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/684 (North side) 16/03/73 Nos.77-95 (Odd) West Clifton Terrace

GV II

Includes: No.54 WHITELADIES ROAD Clifton. Terrace of 10 houses, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 1-window range. A formal composition has alternate houses stepping forward, a banded ground floor to a drip, a dentil cornice and a low parapet with small ears at the corners; the terrace is divided by a first-floor recess containing a single Tuscan column in antis with balustrades each side. Doorways set in shallow recesses have overlights with margin panes and 6-panel doors. Tripartite windows, smaller on the second floor, have 4/4-pane flanked by 2/2-pane sashes. Balconies on cast-iron brackets to Nos 83 & 89-93. No.95 has a mid C19 remodelled ground floor and right return, with an arcade of semicircular arches with foliate capitals to the outside, and cambered, keyed heads to plate-glass sashes above. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to Nos 83 & 87-95; good carriage lamps to the doorways of Nos 83 & 85. The central column is a unique, Mannerist device. The ground floors to No.79 & 81 were removed for access to the car park of Clifton Down shopping centre, c1985, and C20 shop fronts replaced with ashlar. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 256).

Listing NGR: ST5775074055