Numbers 8 To 25 And Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls And Piers

Numbers 8 to 25 form a terrace of eighteen houses built around 1845 by Charles Underwood in Clifton, Bristol. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, have party wall stacks, and a pantile double-pile roof. Number 8 has a mansard roof. They are designed with a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house is three storeys high with a basement, and has a single-window range, although numbers 15 to 18 have an attic storey. The terrace is a composed design, with three-house end sections and a four-house centre section that projects forward from the lower intermediate sections. The ground floor is banded with a moulded band, articulated above by pilasters to a wide frieze band. Bracketed cornices adorn the projected sections, with moulded coping in between.

The right-hand doorways are recessed, except for numbers 23 and 24, which are on the left. Number 25's entrance is in the left return, with a raised surround and cornice to a semicircular-arched doorway featuring a three-pane fanlight and a two-pane door. Ground-floor windows are in plain recesses. The end sections have upper windows set in semicircular-arched recesses, with raised cornices and plain pediments, containing eight-by-eight-pane sashes. Second-floor windows originally had moulded cills extended each side, for three-by-three-pane sashes. Number 24 has French casements. Intermediate sections feature architraves to the upper windows, and a second-floor sill band. The central section has architraves, raised cornices to the first floor, a second-floor sill band, and an attic storey with pilaster and frieze bands with three-by-three-pane sashes. First-floor balconies have cast-iron railings and brackets, with number 8 featuring a plain pediment instead.

The interior entrance halls have modillion cornices and are divided by a semicircular arch from a central, dogleg staircase. The staircase has stick balusters, a curtail and wreathed rail, cornices, panelled shutters, and six-panel doors. Attached to the terrace are spear-headed basement area railings, front garden walls, and spear-headed railings, along with round-topped ashlar gate piers with oval panels. Number 25 has a railed, flagged entrance area.

The terrace was built in the mid-19th century as part of a wider housing development, situated between a late Georgian terrace and a group of linked pairs within Canynge Square.