Edgecumbe Hall And Attached Railings Thorton Hall And Attached Railings

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL, Clifton 901-1/9/986 (North side) 21/02/73 Nos.24 AND 25 Thornton Hall (24), Edgecumbe Hall (25) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND HILL (North side) Edgecumbe Hall)

GV II*

Pair of attached houses. 1831-33. By Charles Dyer. Limestone ashlar, lateral stacks and hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A fine pair of back-to-back houses with opposite front elevations and full side elevation. Principal front to Edgecumbe Hall is symmetrical, the ends broken forward with broad pilasters to a deep frieze, cornice, and parapet with 3 sections of balustrade to the middle, and outer sections with end panels and attic windows covered by Greek key grilles. Full-width verandah has central Pennant steps to a raised flagged terrace, with square columns to an entablature, dentil cornice and balustrade in 5 sections divided by anthemion panels; central section breaks forward with distyle-in-antis fluted Corinthian columns. Plain doorway has a large 2-leaf 6-panel doorway with margin and overlights. Architraves to windows, panels over middle first-floor windows, ground-floor French windows with margin bars and 2-light overlights, and 6/6-pane sashes. Front elevation to Thornton Hall is a 3-window range, the centre broken forward, with paired outer giant pilasters, frieze, cornice and attic storey with pedimented end panels over the pilasters, raised parapet centre with open panel with Greek key grille, and balusters in between. Porch has panelled clasping jambs to a balustrade, overlight with margin bars, 2-leaf 6-panel doors and margin lights. Right-hand bay has panelled jambs and tripartite window, architraves above, left-hand tripartite window, and 6/6-pane sashes. Side return has 4-window range similar to Edgecumbe Hall, added storey ro right, with outer tripartite bays with balustrades, and central stone verandah with 2 tripartite openings each with panelled piers and outer semicircular arches; segmental-arched basement windows. INTERIOR: fine and complete with extensive Greek Revival plasterwork and joinery. Each has entrance halls, to central top-lit stair wells; Edgecumbe Hall has a stone open-well stair with cast-iron balusters, doors and arches with guilloche panels, anthemia and palmettes to friezes and good round stained-glass lantern. Thornton Hall has a timber open-well stair with panelled soffit, cast-iron balusters and square lantern. Attic and basement stairs with stick balusters and ramped rails. Fireplaces, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast- and wrought-iron railings to verandah and basement areas. The finest of an important group of three early villas which '...set a new standard for suburban aspirations' (Mowl). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 275; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 159).

Listing NGR: ST5766773364