10, Lower Park Row

BRISTOL

ST5873SW LOWER PARK ROW 901-1/10/139 (South side) 04/03/77 No.10

II*

House, now flats. Early C17, altered c1722, datestone over doorways, altered early C19, restored c1980. Rubble, limestone dressings and ashlar gable stacks, and pantile cross-gabled roof. Double-depth plan with gable fronting the street. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 1-window range. Gabled front with 2 cross gables each side, strings to upper floors. Right-hand brick segmental-arched blocked doorway, central C19 shop window, and right-hand C20 sash. 8/8-pane first-floor sash under a relieving arch, and C20 attic casement. Left return has stacks to both gables, a central C20 casement and second-floor C16 mullion window, with good small semicircular-arched leaded windows in ashlar panels to extreme sides of upper floors. Right return a 5-window range, blind to the left of paired central semicircular-arched early C19 doorways with imposts, and restored cross windows with leaded metal casements. INTERIOR: a rebuilt framed dogleg stair from the entrance with moulded C17 door frames and panelled doors on each landing. Former list describes 'good mid C17 features particularly 6 excellent panelled doors and a number of fine Tudor-arched fireplaces, one in the basement has a bread oven', not accessible at time of review. Moulded cornices, panelling and a firestone arched window.' Exceptional as a surviving early domestic building in the City centre. Former front to SW elevation with 2 gables.

Listing NGR: ST5849873147