Glen Abbot Number 35 And Attached Rear Railings

Glen Abbot Number 35 and attached rear railings is a pair of attached houses built around 1840, located on Cotham Road in Bristol. The buildings are constructed from limestone ashlar with rendered sides and feature a double-depth plan in the Italianate style. They stand two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and have a symmetrical front that is divided by a narrow central recess.

The ground floor includes bow windows and entrances at each end, with a moulded plinth and banded rustication on the ground floor leading to a dentil entablature that runs around the tops of the bows. There are paired pilasters on the first floor supporting a console cornice and an attic storey with a moulded coping. The right-hand doorway, which faces Cotham Park, is set in a projecting two-storey block with paired pilasters and an entablature, featuring a two-leaf door with a moulded panel and a rectangular overlight.

On the left side, there is a single-storey block with a curved porch on Pennant steps, supported by Tuscan columns, leading to a two-leaf half-glazed door. The windows include three-light bays with pilasters and plate-glass sashes below paired first-floor windows that have architraves and console cornices. The left side has 6/6-pane sashes, while the right side features horned 2/2-pane sashes. The central section has one plate-glass sash with a balustrade below on the first floor. The attic windows have moulded jambs with 3/3-pane sashes on the left and 20th-century casements on the right, while the basement has 3/3-pane sashes.

The interior has not been inspected. At the rear, there are spear-headed railings leading down to the basement entrance below the left-hand porch. Numbers 17-35 share a common plan and many external details.