Numbers 1 To 19 And Attached Front Basemant Area Railings

A terrace of 19 houses built between 1792 and 1815 by William Paty. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, and have ashlar rear elevations, party wall stacks and concrete tile and slate mansard roofs. They are built on a double-depth plan and are in a late Georgian style. Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a two-window range. The terrace is stepped, articulated by giant pilasters to overlapping cornices, and features parapets. The entrance fronts are rendered and stepped, with a bridge over the basement area leading to doorways. These doorways have pilasters, entablature blocks with triglyphs, open pediments, semicircular arches, some with metal fanlights, and six-panel doors. Windows are sash windows with 6/6 panes, except in the basement where they are 8/8 panes; dormers are present. Number 17 has a late 19th-century two-storey porch with a moulded architrave to the right-hand doorway, a semicircular-arched front ground-floor window, and cornices to the ground and first floors. The rear elevations are of ashlar construction, each with a three-window range, rusticated ground floors, pilasters and cornices, 6/6-pane sashes, and two dormers. Number 2 has a tented wrought-iron balcony with three segmental arches and batswing spandrels. A raised terrace walk extends the full length of the terrace. The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the front are wrought-iron railings and gates with urn finials, with lamp baskets surviving at numbers 2, 10 and 13, as well as rear area railings. The group value demonstrated is that of a significant example of late Georgian architecture in Bristol.