Clifton Wood House

BRISTOL

ST5772 CLIFTON WOOD ROAD, Clifton 901-1/41/821 (South West side) 08/01/59 Clifton Wood House

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House. 1721, altered c1800. Rendered with limestone dressings, brick ridge stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys; 8-window range. 2 wide, full-height canted bows frame the doorway, with a single window extension to the left, with a moulded parapet coping. A good doorway has fluted pilasters, entablature blocks and a pediment, rectangular timber fanlight and a 6-panel door, with 2/2-pane flanking sashes. Windows have cambered heads to 6/6-pane sashes, blind to the left-hand ground floor, and with exposed frames above. Rear elevation has symmetrical 3-window range with the centre recessed and rusticated pilaster strips to the corners; central semicircular-arched stair windows, and cambered heads either side to 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: large fully-panelled entrance hall with marble-flagged floor, divided by a keyed elliptical arch on attached fluted columns, with a good rear open-well stair with 3 twisted column-on-vase balusters per tread, newels of 4 columns to a wide curtail, and moulded soffits; shell head niches; doorways with raised broken pediments and 6-panel doors, and panelled shutters. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 16).

Listing NGR: ST5753272713