Redland Hill House And Attached Rear Terrace Wall

BRISTOL

ST5774 REDLAND HILL, Redland 901-1/34/1725 (South side) 08/01/59 Redland Hill House and attached rear terrace wall (Formerly Listed as: REDLAND HILL Redland Hill House)

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House, now college. 1761. By James Bridges. Rendered with limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement; 7-window range. A left-hand wing with a wide, canted full-height bay; first-floor sill band, bracketed cornice and parapet. A Venetian doorway to the right of the wing has interlacing glazing bars to the fanlight, pilasters to 4/4-pane side lights and an 8-panel door. Keyed architraves to 6/6-pane sashes, smaller on the second floor. A similar rear elevation has Gibbs surrounds to the windows, and a semicircular-arched stair light above the door. INTERIOR: central stair hall with a rear open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, ramped rail and curtail; panelled reveals to the stair light; modillion cornices, wainscotting, 6-panel doors and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rear terrace has a coped and railed wall, and steps up to the doorway with wrought-iron railings and a curtail. Designed as a semi-detached pair with a matching bay at the opposite end, and as such a very rare design. The other end was demolished in 1933. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 264).

Listing NGR: ST5762274927