Number 26 And Attached Basement Area Railings

This is a late 18th-century house, likely dating to around 1780, situated on Sion Hill in Clifton, Bristol. The house is built with a rubble core covered in render, featuring limestone dressings, party wall stacks, and a 19th-century slate hipped roof. It is designed with a double-depth plan and follows a late Georgian style, with three stories, an attic, and a basement. The front is symmetrical, displaying banded pilaster strips and a moulded coping. There are two full-height canted bays, and a central timber doorcase with Doric columns, an entablature featuring triglyphs, an open modillion pediment, a semicircular-arched doorway, a plate-glass fanlight, and a six-panel door with the upper four panels raised. The ground-floor windows are timber sashes with 8/8 panes, while those above are plate-glass with margin lights. Smaller semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sashes are centrally placed in the upper floors. The rear elevation is similar in design.

Inside, the entrance hall is distinguished by a semicircular arch with fluted pilasters and a panelled soffit, leading to a rear dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a ramped, wreathed rail. The first-floor landing also features a semicircular panelled arch. The front and back ground-floor rooms are connected by a wide doorway, while first-floor rooms are linked by elliptical arches incorporating two-leaf 16-panel doors. Notable interior details include eared fireplace surrounds, panelled shutters, dados, and six-panel doors. The property also includes attached wrought-iron gates and railings surrounding the basement area.