1, Worcester Road

BRISTOL

ST5773NW WORCESTER ROAD, Clifton 901-1/2/1144 (North side) 04/03/77 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: WORCESTER ROAD No.1 Clifton College Sanatorium)

GV II

Attached house, now school. 1863. By Charles Hansom. Squared Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, external and ridge stacks, and a tiled roof with bands of round-nosed tiles, and decorative ridge tiles. Double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. A near-symmetrical front has outer gables with barge-boards, first-floor string, and a central doorway with an open 2-centred arch on banded columns under a segmental hood with square stops, foliate carved spandrels, to a 2-leaf 6-panel door; ground-floor buttresses on both sides. Windows have ogee heads and splayed reveals, to 2/2-pane sashes with horizontal bars: paired to the right of the doorway with a central attached column with foliate capital, set in a square label beneath a 2-centred arched carved panel, and matching window in a canted bay to the left with a drip and parapet pierced with quatrefoils. A good 2-sided central oriel has moulded and carved corbelling, windows with Decorated Gothic tracery and a projecting weathered top with crenellations. Outer first-floor windows are paired and set in 2-centred relieving arches with alternate white and grey voussoirs, and a matching single light in the gables; single central gabled dormer. The left-hand elevation has a similar left-hand gable with a canted bay and right-hand external stack, and similar rear gabled wing with paired ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 288).

Listing NGR: ST5709273603