Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings) is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A Victorian School. 1 related planning application.

Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings)

WRENN ID
sunken-moat-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
School
Period
Victorian
Address
Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings), BS8 3JD
OS grid reference
ST 571 734
Coordinates
51.45846, -2.61878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clifton High School, located at 5 Clifton Park, is a pair of attached houses that were converted into a school around 1850 by Charles Underwood. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features lateral stacks, although the roof is not visible. It is designed in a Neoclassical style and has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a symmetrical front facing College Road that has a central section that projects forward. This central area is adorned with pilasters, a frieze, a dentil cornice, and a coped attic storey. The outer ground floor is banded, and there is a full-height central three-light bow window, which is flanked by subordinate pilasters and features recessed lintels with rosettes above two-over-two pane sash windows. The outer tripartite ground-floor windows have similar detailing, while the upper floors have architraves and six-over-six pane sashes, with three-over-three panes in the attic.

The left-hand return of the building also has a three-window range, and at the rear, there is a single-storey former conservatory with pilasters supporting an entablature. The entrance is located at the rear.

Inside, there is a central rear open dogleg stair leading to the first floor, featuring Greek Revival-style cast-iron balusters. The interior also includes six-panel doors with panelled reveals, panelled shutters, cornices, and ceiling roses.

The property has attached basement area cast-iron railings. It shares similar architectural details and fenestration with the end houses of Worcester Terrace, also designed by Underwood. Extensions from the 1960s are not included in this listing. The building is now connected to a mid-20th-century entrance.

Local climate

Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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