60 And 62, Pembroke Road

A pair of attached houses dating from around 1850, located on Pembroke Road in Clifton, Bristol. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar, with a shared party wall and external ashlar stacks. They have slate and concrete tile hipped roofs. The design follows a double-depth plan and is executed in an Italianate style.

Each house is two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and features a three-window front. The facades are arranged as square pavilions with attics and deep, overhanging eaves leading to pyramidal roofs, framing a recessed central section. This recessed area has a banded ground floor, sill bands, a frieze, and a cornice, with an additional banded attic storey featuring stone eaves brackets to the front.

A stone verandah sits in the centre, supported by square columns with wrought-iron spandrels forming a frieze and a balustrade incorporating cast-iron sections. Above the verandah, the first floor is divided into four sections by pilasters, with the central pair projecting forward under a pediment. A single-storey porch is attached to the right-hand house, with three side windows, paired pilasters to an entablature, and a semicircular arched doorway with a two-leaf, two-panel door.

Semicircular arched windows are accentuated with thin hoodmoulds. The pavilions are distinguished by triple ground-floor windows, paired windows above with a stone balcony, and triple flat-headed attic windows. Sash windows are present throughout, with horizontal glazing bars. Two French windows provide access to the verandah, and four first-floor windows are also present.

The interior includes a central stair hall with a large open-well staircase featuring turned balusters and a curtail. Further features are six-panel doors, cornices, and panelled shutters. The composition of the pair of houses is considered to display the Italianate style 'in its most genial and fastidious'. The buildings are part of a larger group which includes numbers 64 and 66.